Trey Carvell was one of my best and brightest students.
From excelling in my history classes at West Kentucky Community and Technical College, he went to Murray State University, my alma mater, graduated and started teaching middle school.
I knew Trey had the right stuff to teach middle school age kids who are in the most awkward of awkward stages in their life’s progression to adulthood. If you teach middle school, or have (or had) a middle schooler in the family circle, you know what I mean.
Trey teaches history at Lone Oak Middle School near Paducah. After school was out this month, he posted on Facebook a tribute to youngsters who weren’t showered with academic and sports honors and who were neither BMOCs or BWOCs in middle school or high school.
Trey, here’s a mega shout out for your “big shout out to all the kids who didn’t win an award, make honor roll, and barely made it through the school year.”
- For your “big hug to the moms, dads, grandparents, caregivers, and foster parents that stuck by them as they maneuvered the school year.
- For your awareness of “the kids that didn’t get invited to the prom, didn’t get a scholarship to college, and perhaps have to go straight to work out of high school....you are still worthy of a pat on the back and a Facebook post with people talking about how amazing you are.”
- For your reminder that “Some kids have to work twice as hard as other students just to get a C. Their achievements deserve recognition.”
- For your reminder, “Don’t forget those kids.”
- For your recognition that, “kindness, creativity, and generosity....those attributes sadly don’t get the accolades they deserve.”
Way to go, Trey. Way to go.
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