In my family there are three members who were teachers, and two others whose work was related to the school systems.  As the only member of my family to avoid working in education, I spent many a day in Teacher’s Lounges waiting for my Father to get off work.  Yeah, you try attending a High School where your Father was both a counselor AND a the Department Chair for Industrial Arts (thus why Jeff’s teacher is an electronics teacher).  Now, in my day, these teachers lounges were full of smoke and dirty jokes.  Or, they were pissing and moaning about some student or the other.  Great bargaining chips for me (“I know what YOU did…”)  BUT… I still have a great deal of respect for teachers as they do the best they can with what they have… us!

But it was in 1970 that Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson wrote “Jump up, look around, Find yourself some fun, No sense in sitting there hating everyone.”  And thus was born one of Tull’s earliest hits, “Teacher”.  The album “Benefit” was released before “Aqualung” and us Tull fans argue over which album is better (Aqualung, says me…).

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