Jordan Carr
Thomaston, CT- At Thomaston High School, 9 teachers will not be at the school next year, but I have found that one teacher, Mr. Franklin, should be kept at the school for years to come. Mr. Franklin is a history teacher at Thomaston High, and he is more involved with the school than most other teachers that I have seen in my school career.
To start off the year, Mr. Franklin let us know that our World Backgrounds and History, would be challenging, and that he expects a lot from his sophomores' honors classes. He has gotten us to explore our minds, to find what our beliefs are, and apply them to the subjects that we are discussing in class. We debate these subjects, and see how the world compares or contrasts to the world that we know today. He has given us more challenging projects than I have had in my entire life. He gets us involved in what is happening in the world today, and understand how these things came about. Mr. Franklin has given us what we need to move on the our junior year, and has also given us some of the essentials that we need for life.
Mr. Franklin has gotten involved with the student body by becoming the sophomore class advisor, coaching the class of 2012 in the homecoming game, and coaching the freshmen boys basketball team. For the sophomore class, he has set up more fundraisers that were set up last year, so that the class of 2011 can prosper in the years to come. He has fundraised for our grade himself, and has tried to get much of our grade involved with the school. For our homecoming game in November, our sophomore class ditched Mr. Franklin to get our coach for the second year in a row Mr. Long, but Mr. Franklin was quickly swept up by the freshmen class. Mr. Franklin coached the boys freshmen basketball team, and he coached valiantly giving the boys the stuff to go 11-4, to my belief, for the season. It seems as though his efforts are for not however, next year the freshmen team will more than likely be cut from our school due to the economic downturns.
Finally, Mr. Franklin has hoped himself to watch his students prosper in the future. One day, we walked into out World Backgrounds and History class like it was any other day, and he had us take out a piece of paper. He told us to write down what we want our future to be like, what we wanted the world in general to be like in the future. We all read our futures aloud, and then he collected these papers, not out of the norm for him. However, he then said that he would not be returning them to us the next day, but in 2 years, when we graduate. We asked why he had us write this future world down, and he responded by saying why he wanted to become a teacher; he said that he wanted to become a teacher so that one day, when he is much older, and still teaching, he could say that he taught that person that his students talk about, and that he helped mold the person that they have become. This main reason is why I believe that Mr. Franklin should stay at Thomaston High School, he genuinely cares about his students and our futures, and he wants to help us achieve these ideal futures that we have for ourselves and our future worlds.