What a difference a couple of decades make! The V V high school Agricultural Education program that I graduated from in central Wisconsin in 1980 differs some from the program that I teach today. What strikes me the most, is how incredibly different the world in which we live has become over that passing time. I was so fortunate to have been a student in Mr. Evans' and Mr. Hegewald's agriculture classes. They were my ag teachers, FFA Advisors, and later, when I became an ag teacher, they served as mentors and friends. I wonder, while they prepared their lesson plans for the classes that my classmates and I would sit in, did they, in their wildest dreams, imagine what our world would be like today? What changes would they have imagined that our education system would make to keep pace with our changing world?
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