Talkin bout my generation
Dick, Jane and Spot go to school The redneck,is a boomers, people born between 1946 and the late 1950's. We are called boomers because our parents had lots of kids, so they named us the baby boom. Now that we are senior citizens the baby part was dropped. An interesting thing about being a boomer is that apparently no one saw us coming, despite census data that would have revealed that we were not sneaking up on anyone. The most memorable thing about my school years is that every school I went to was under construction. Every one of my schools also had 'portables' trailer park classrooms planted in the schoolyard. One of my schools was so short of teachers it was staffed with old warhorses who should have been retired decades ago. My grade 5 teacher used to fall asleep like clockwork every day, right after morning recess, he had to be at least 70 years old. When we got to College, it was the same as our school days. ...