tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post6784179759014262128..comments2024-03-27T13:44:38.472-07:00Comments on Urban Decay: Crumbling: the Yazoo County Agricultural High School, Benton MississippiKodachromeguyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09234925040052813302noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post-65269092283070082312023-01-30T20:15:12.749-08:002023-01-30T20:15:12.749-08:00Hi Anonymous of Jan. 30, 2023. That is a nice sent...Hi Anonymous of Jan. 30, 2023. That is a nice sentiment. Thank you for posting. kodachromeguy@bellsouth.nethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06220306502819757568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post-55545943034206957592023-01-30T18:28:26.392-08:002023-01-30T18:28:26.392-08:00I don't know who you are or what you taught, b...I don't know who you are or what you taught, but a lot of success stories have come from this very school. I for one am a graduate of this school and have a successful career as a Family Nurse Practitioner and I'm Married to a successful man that also went to this school. I have successful family members and friends that are also graduates of this school. When life gives you lemon, you make lemonade and that's what we did. We succeeded because we wanted it and the people teaching most of us were only there for a paycheck. There was some that cared, but with God, we prevailedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post-4731556879364286812022-05-16T00:55:11.395-07:002022-05-16T00:55:11.395-07:00If you were one of my students, I hope you suceede...If you were one of my students, I hope you suceeded, and got out to make something of your life. The world is a big place and there is a place in it for each and every one of us but we have to have a goal and ambition and hard work to make it happen. Some people are born with more luck than others unfortunately.<br /><br />At this school the principal kept several paddles in his office. I was given one also and I was encouraged as a teacher to send down any students who gave me trouble if I didn't use the paddle, so he could beat them. This was in the early 1990s. The lady teacher across the hall kept a loaded pistol in her handbag and in her desk drawer. I was asked my first week by the students if I was a racist (person). Most of my students had a third grade reading level, some higher if they were juniors or seniors in the high school. I kept all the grading books of those days and have all the names of the students I taught. I would like to know what happened to them. I remember it well.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00085515063882798256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post-635705169945890752017-11-08T20:33:10.514-08:002017-11-08T20:33:10.514-08:00Class of 1992Class of 1992Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post-66587841230811861612017-11-08T09:55:36.378-08:002017-11-08T09:55:36.378-08:00What did you teach I might have neen one of your s...What did you teach I might have neen one of your studentsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post-90221292418995392102017-11-08T09:54:19.302-08:002017-11-08T09:54:19.302-08:00What did you teach?What did you teach?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-418200345166548412.post-70032379755206348722013-05-19T00:42:31.956-07:002013-05-19T00:42:31.956-07:00I taught at this school twenty years ago in one of...I taught at this school twenty years ago in one of those rooms pictured. It was crumbling even then. There was no air conditioning anywhere. The steam heat was not turned on on weekends, and it took a day for the thing to start working, so if it was a cold winter Monday, it stayed that way, same temperature as outside. The teaching materials were rudimentary. The staff was consistently white and exceedingly racist. The students were working class or marginal poverty line mixed races, predominantly black as the white county families endeavored to send their kids to the private white school down the road. I will never forget the many good kids I met while there who only needed a lift to surmount their circumstances. I wonder many times what became of them. They were worth saving. This school and the teaching staff were not. It's better off closed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com