Proctoring a High School Exam While in High School

Yesterday, I published an article about my former dreams of being a basketball coach and my unexpected one-game stint as a baseball coach when I was in high school. While it is the case that I once wanted to be a basketball coach, I never once wanted to be a teacher, despite my success in teaching a middle school student to not be too reliant on his calculator for math homework. You may be wondering where I am going to this. What does my once having wanted to be a basketball coach and my one-game stint as a baseball coach have to do with wanting or not wanting to be a teacher? Let me tell you a story: The story of that one time I proctored a high school New York State regents exam when I was still in high school. Here is a random photograph I took at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden on April 26, 2027. April 26, 2007, was probably close in date to the first of two anecdotes I share in this article. This story takes place in my senior year of high school, after my brief “career” as a…