Feb
24
Midnight Train to Georgia
Last May, the head of the math department at my high school was retiring and moving to Georgia. I rewrote the lyrics to “Midnight Train to Georgia” by Gladys Knight and the Pips, and some other crazy math teachers decided to sing the song for her at her retirement party. We couldn’t find a lot of time to practice, so they day of, we took all of our students, brought them in my classroom, and had them watch as we practiced the song a few times at the end of the school day. We…