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There was a brief but interesting period in my life that took place during the summer before 1st grade. That was when I attended some class up at NKU for elementary school kids. I think the teacher was an NKU student working on her degree. It's been 46 years, but I still think about this class a lot.
It wasn't a class for "bad" kids, and anyone could have attended it. The Campbell County Schools did seem to have a strange vendetta against some of us though that lasted for years. But this class didn't have a lot of busywork like our main schools did. People mostly just made filmstrips with one of those do-it-yourself kits and chewed bubble gum. We also made chess pieces out of plaster, and someone famously broke one of the molds.
And the teacher was obsessed with this Jennifer Warnes song. She kept talking about it all the time.
When the regular school year started at my new school, there were several times when this teacher drove me to school. She would always crank the radio every time this song came on.
Her class was also the first place I ever saw a Speak & Spell. Kids got in trouble for pressing the "module select" button to hear the funny sound it made. The teacher thought it would break the Speak & Spell. But why would Texas Instruments make a toy for little kids that was so easy to break just by pressing a button?
This entry ties in with the next entry. And if you like 1979 adult contemporary, then whooooo, man, you're gonna love the next entry even more than this one! If you've stumbled upon some of the YouTube clips, you might know right where this is headed.
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