What am I doing here?

I have taught in public schools for 12 years now. I spent my first year working with elementary school students in the heart of a rough part of Houston, Texas. I taught students how to work with broadcasting equipment for our school’s morning television and afternoon radio broadcasts. Each kindergarten through fourth grade class in the school would spend a week with me and would produce a total of ten live broadcasts. The J. Ruth Smith Academy for Communications is a magnet school in Aldine Independent School District and was completely furnished with state of the art equipment in the two studios before I arrived in 2001. There were monitors, switchers, massive sound boards, monitors, digital cameras with TelePrompTers, studio lights, green screens, an anchor desk, lavalier microphones, and additional sound booths with high fidelity microphones for excellent sound quality. It was a...