School Stuff

‘The Moog Synthesizer’ & Basic Expectations

By Ed Clark, The Delphos Herald
Published:  Monday, February 5, 2007 (1 year, 8 months ago)
Print

I remember as a punk kid rattling with the boys about the awesome sound of the music synthesizer. We thought it was cool just to speak of it — a ‘Moog’ point today. I really knew very little except to wonder how the sounds of a synthesizer were made in that time of “Progressive Rock.”

(American Physicist Robert Moog (1934-2005) “developed a sequence of electronic modules that could generate and then filter oscillated sound waves in various combinations.” The Moog Synthesizer was born)

The story of Moog demonstrates the “you never know” where education may take you. This example of an engineering physicist whose creation enabled musicians to create never before heard musical sound.

“I’m an engineer. They use my tools. I see myself as a toolmaker and the musicians are my customers,” Moog said in 2000.

A few of the music legends using Moog’s synthesizer to create include old-school The Beatles, Yes, Pink Floyd, Manfred Mann to new-school Nine Inch Nails, Pearl Jam, Beck, and Phish.

As parents we regularly synthesize progress reports, interim reports, grade cards. All are telling of our kid’s progress with learning at school or the lack there of. We filter the information hoping to fine-tune the best interests for our kid.

Parents have expectations of their kids and so do teachers and the school. With that said we are reminded of some “basic expectations” school to home and home to school — a reversible set of five.

1) Be at school on time!

2) Be prepared for class (do your homework)

3) Behave

4) Be of a mind to learn (care)

5) Be decent to those around you (golden rule)

Now apply the same five statements to parent-school relations:

Parents please:

1) Be at school on time to drop off and pick up your kid.

2) Be the supervisor of homework completion at home.

3) Behave when inquiring with the school about your kid — it is always the best policy — riding in jacked up rarely goes well!

4) Be of a mind that school really is important in your house, keep it high priority, and make yourself make it that way.

5) Be decent to teachers — it really is in your best interest.

This composition of five represents “school stuff,” that we all basically expect. As we lean into the second half of the school year, here’s hoping you, your kid(s) and your school are hitting a good many of the high notes.

Good Vibrations…

0 Reader Responses to “School Stuff”

Complete the form below to leave a response of your own.