AVID for college

So, for the second year in a row, I talked to Ranchero Middle School and Hesperia Junior High School kids about the value of going to college, this year wearing my Virginia Tech t-shirt.

Last year, I had a tough act to follow last year — a doctor who spent a lot of time, as I recall it, talking about the income potential in the job. Those sorts of questions posed to journalists don’t go quite as well.

This year, though, I was thinking I had it made, since the program was packed full of school district employees, and I figured the kids would be interested in someone not involved in schools.

Well, so much for that. I followed school nurse Peggy Lindsay and it was like following Nickelodeon’s Kid’s Choice Awards. There were discussions of snot, there was talk of blood. There was endless amounts of vomit. There were live insects inside a kid’s ears. Needless to say, she was a huge hit.

I have got to work on my material for next year.

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