Shockingly, this is not a homeschool post. There is a saying in Albertville, Alabama: Once an Aggie always an Aggie. (Our football team was called the Aggies. Our mascot was the devil. not sure why) Watching this little old lady, I believe the saying.
The thing that really sets Albertville apart from other schools that I have been to/been a part of is that school pride runs deeper there than anywhere else. The school system's motto is "Spirit of Excellence" They mean it, too. The choirs, the band, the math team, the science team, even the PTO get awards. (No joke, we got top PTO in the Southeast one year!) The football team for a few years was really bad, but nobody really cared. The academics were strong. They even got rid of *good* coaches who were bad for the boys. (My former high school football coach was hired at Albertville, and fired. He was a Sunday Christian. He'd come to church, make the football team come once a year, but during the week he'd cuss those kids like they were dogs. My school tolerated it, because he was a winning coach, Albertville did not)
So while you might not ever see me wearing one the "Aggie for life and proud of it" t-shirts, I do feel a certain sense of pride when I see the band perform at the Macy's parade. When the choirs receive awards. When the math team comes in top ten in the nation. Ditto Science Team. And yes, I was a member of the PTO the year we won.
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I think that's the one thing I miss about being homeschooled. I never had any "school pride." So when we have the annual M&M bowl around here, (Millington/Munford)and people and their dogs are running around in school colors, I don't quite know what to do. Even our pastor gets in on it.
And here's me: Hum-dee-dum.
Whats bad is that I have no school pride for the school where I graduated. The only good about me going there is that is where I met my wonderful hubby. (((awwww...))) I do get more feelings of pride when I hear about something good about Albertville (where Nathaniel went k-4 and Benjamin went k ) than I do about the schools where I went.
Wow, so you were homeschooled and now you homeschool. COOL! Guess that shows that people who grew up homeschooled don't feel like they missed out enough to want their kids to experience the things they never got to.
I personally like the thought of homeschooling so my kids DON'T have to experience some of the things I did. I was the rumor queen in seventh grade. Not me spreading them, getting them spread about me. My mother had my sister when I was in seventh grade. Even though people saw my mother pregnant out to there and I was slim then, it was still rumored that my sister was my daughter. That was one of the nicer ones.
Dogs in school colors? Are either of the teams Bulldogs??? One of the schools I went to was. It is always funny to see little lapdogs wearing bulldog doggie shirts. Kind of like they are dreaming of being a "real dog"
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