As one of your band directors at Boswell and Wayside (assistant director), I could see you were a scared kid, but laser focused on your playing. I am so glad you gave kudos to David Reas and Les Ross - two exceedingly fine and great band directors. I often think I shouldn’t have left teaching there when I did, I had my reasons which had nothing to do with the school or district. But it’s for kids like you were that I was a band director for 42 years - thank you for crediting them with the encouragement and leadership you needed so much. I hope to see you again in person if you ever get back up to the Pacific Northwest again, William! I have loved keeping up with your career over these years. AND when you go back for that 40th HS reunion, please tell all the Boswell band people that I remember and cherish each and every moment and remember them all with great fondness. Take care, Bud!

I was a school bus driver & the parents are the same way with the drivers. Their kids could do no wrong. It was very frustrating at times. & because our son was a fidgeter in school they told us that he would never be socially accepted & tried to put him on Ritalin & told them NO. He is now a man after God’s own heart & one of the biggest social butterflies you could ever meet. Always getting in conversation with just about everyone he comes in contact with & asking them if they need prayer for anything, even prays with people all the time. He’s an amazing young man for someone that would never be ‘socially acceptable’. Love this podcast kudos to ALL the teachers out there ❤

My mom had a piece of Lathe from house they had built, she had used it to stir varnish

My first year I played soccer (local league, not school), I was terrible. I got one of those participation rewards. They announced it as the “effort award”. They didn’t even engrave the plaque at the bottom. I looked at it as the humiliation award.