My dad went to school with a guy with the same first and last name, and one middle initial the same (my dad has 2 middle names.) The guy was a year younger. Even freakier, once he grew up, the guy bought the house right next to my grandparents, and they sorta became surrogate family (we gave his wife my grandmother's wedding ring when she died.)

I had the call-to-the-office mixup in middle school.

I'm assuming Cheruiyot is a common Kenyan last name...

There are still morning announcements.

The morning announcements thing also reminds me (I am from a small town, so bear with me) of a kid who got suspended because of a really clever "Toys for Tots" campaign. He got on the announcements, and played George Micheal's "I want your Sex", but before he got to the word "sex", they turned off the tape and said money and launched into an announcement about the Toys for Tots collection. He was a Coach's kid, so it was a big deal he got suspended.

A few years later, after graduating from college, he was substitute teaching for a biology class, got annoyed with the kids, and called them "little fuckers" and had to be escorted from the building by the Principal (also a coach).

The really funny thing is that they didn't seem to care about the English teacher who threw a chair at me or the Social Studies teacher who drank all day long!

Yeah, my dad's name is not uncommon at all in the swedish community.

There are still morning announcements.

I sort of imagined by now there would be morning video, or morning tweets or something!

Nope. Bad PA, 5th grader leading the Pledge of Allegiance, moment of silence, the whole deal.

My French teacher my freshman year, Mr. Fong, used to get high all day with the (awesome)math teacher. We could smell the dope on their breath and clothing. Mr. Fong also used to play French movies with a lot of nudity with them. I don't think any of the teens in class complained, but it was weird.

We had a new, different, wonderful teacher for Soph-Senior years. Thank goodness.

I'm assuming Cheruiyot is a common Kenyan last name...

It's not Smith, but yeah. They were talking about that during the race.

I also just remembered that the long term sub for Health class (sex and drug education, basically) the year after I graduated was someone who was a senior what I was a freshman. He was going to high school parties and sleeping with high school girls while teaching health!

Small towns are weird.

I also trained the teacher he was subbing for at Penney's, where she worked after not being able to take teaching anymore.