More School Stuff

The Slide Rule Club was formed to teach us how to operate a slide rule. It wasn't part of the curriculum, but some of the guys expressed an interest in it, so they made a club out of it. It was basically just a class run by a teacher, only it was held after hours and there was no credit for it. I seem to remember that you could do a lot more with a slide rule than multiply and divide, but I didn't stick around long enough to learn all the functions. I had the same issue with it that you did, the lines seldom line up and you have to interpolate between them. I thought that it was easier to just do the work on paper, and then you knew what you had. It turned out that we never needed to use a slide rule in any of the classes I took anyway, so I don't think that I missed out on anything important.

Yeah, the whole damn school was run by the teachers....Duh! Who did you think was supposed  to run the school? We were there to learn, and they were there to teach. How could they teach us anything if they didn't run the school? I understand that you've had a problem with authority figures all your life. I've had some problems with some of them, mostly the ones who I thought weren't doing their jobs correctly, but you had trouble with all of them. Anyway, I don't seem to remember you telling me about that letter opener incident. What was that all about?

I got along with Mrs. Kew all right, until the time she told me to write an editorial. I had already written several news articles for the paper, and I knew the difference between a news article and an editorial, so I wrote an editorial that was critical of my gym teacher. The lockers in the gym locker room were junk, and you couldn't put anything in them because it would get stolen in a matter of minutes. I reported it to the gym teacher, who said and did nothing about it. My position was that they should either give us better lockers or post a guard on them, but the gym teacher just mumbled something and walked away. Anyway, Mrs. Kew told me that we couldn't put something like that in the school paper because it was critical of the school, and that it was all just my opinion. I replied that I thought an editorial was supposed  to be my opinion. She said that indeed it was but, in this case, my opinion was unacceptable because it wasn't congruent with her opinion. I told her that, in that case, she should write the editorials herself. She said something about me being a smart aleck, and we seldom spoke to each other after that. She never asked me to write anything for the paper again and, at the end of the semester, I didn't re-enlist for another hitch on the En-Gager.

I've got to sign off now because it's getting late and I have something else I need to do. We can continue this discussion tomorrow.