The class I teach through Virtual High School has ended. This is the last time I will be teaching this class on American Foreign Policy and I'm happy about that. Not only is the content of the course tough to change and not great right now, but there are so many issues teaching students in an online class I was so tired of it. I good number of students each semester have no intention of following through with the course, they just want a study hall at their school and feel its easy to blow off someone they never meet in person. I spent a lot of time chasing down students. VHS policy is no breaks, students are to work through vacations. Except that they don't and in the Spring between the end of February up tot he end of April it seems like at least one student or more is on vacation every week. Then you get hit with a litany of excuses. My school has decided they can meet these sort of needs of students in other ways and has allowed me to give up teaching the course. I learned a lot from doing it and I think it worked well for some students, but I am ready to leave it behind.
I was very excited this week to see the coverage of the assembly we held last week by WCSH 6. This program aired at 6pm on Wednesday May 20, 2015 and was very well done. We appreciate the coverage of our students and of Mr. Goddard who was killed in France during World War Two.
This was great coming on the heels of the coverage by The Kennebec Journal and the article they published the week before. We are hoping this media attention helps us to fund the Memorial planned by students to be on the Maranacook campus and to be dedicated to Lewis Frelan Goddard. We have a GoFundMe page to raise the money. This has been a great experience for all of us.
As Memorial Day approaches, this story continues to warm my heart. What would Frelan Goddard think about the impact he has had on my students?
There are three weeks left in the school year and I expect they will be very busy!
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