First Bell at 7:20 am EDT Tomorrow

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Tomorrow morning at 7:20 am EDT the first warning bell will ring in the new school year for us here in this part of eastern North Carolina. I will be teaching one new subject this year, 7th Grade Social Studies, and one subject I've not taught in a number of years, 7th Grade Science. I asked a colleague who has taught 7th Grade Science for a lot of years now what was new since the last time I taught it. "Well," he said. "You know that since you last taught science they've learned that the Earth isn't flat, it's actually a sphere and, believe it or not, the Universe doesn't revolve around the Earth, but the Earth and the other planets in our solar system revolve around the sun." Isn't that just like a friend? You ask a simple question and they make up some wild fantastical answer full of fairy tales. I'm looking forward to a great year in the classroom!