Island Five

... said often by Ms. Carlock, a "cool" teacher of AHS.

Wandering around in my thoughts today I realized that, strangely, all my teachers are in one way or another, considered cool teachers which then got me thinking, how did "cool teachers" become cool teachers? Did they spring out of the ground, or a more logical way, like being able to identify with their students? Some of my teachers use dry humor, some are able to talk to the students about everyday things like sports and music. This leaves a large number of "uncool" teachers, however. Not surprisingly a lot of those teachers are old and apparently aren't able to summon the energy to try and keep up with baggy jeans and loud rap music.

So then at the end of each year students pass along the word of which teachers are cool and those that are spawned from tar pits. This then possibly leads into a bias of class choices, choosing teacher over subject. Some teachers get less and less students because they aren't hip or cool enough to keep their students focused or interested and eventually some subjects are favored over others merely on force of prejudice.

You should see where this could lead, so how does the district get students interested in those classes that have sometimes been given hurtful labels by alums? How does society keep knowledge that is not willingly learned by a large majority of younger generations?