That’s what kids next year will hear at one Fairfax County high school next year.  I always knew Frank was irreplaceable and now the school system is finding that out as well. Apparently enrollment next year was not high enough to justify full-time auto shop teacher so the program is closed. It’s not his program anymore yet I still feel sadness that what he built as the first shop teacher at that school is no more. We moved so that I could start something new here in Kansas City and he was happy to leave behind some of the pain and anguish the teaching brings yet I know it must be sad for him to know that what he built is gone. I confess that I am sad for the loss of a champion for the kids for whom college is not the answer. The importance of career and technical education was, and is, a passion for him and many others like him.

Keep your fingers crossed that someday a school district that needs someone who works too hard and shares too much will find another talented teacher who gives all they have and cares too much. Oh yes I forget that it happens in classrooms around the country every fall. Maybe Frank will find his way back to one someday.