Rolfes Is Just
A Small-Town Guy
Ron Rolfes, a retired history/social science
teacher and coach from Wynot, NE, has lived in
rural Nebraska all his life, growing up on the family
farm southeast of Menominee, attending Wayne
State College for his education degree and after
a couple short stints teaching at West Catholic
Elementary School in Fordyce and Menominee and
Homer High School, settled to a life well-lived in
Wynot.
“I loved the teaching but the technology had
become very challenging and stressful,” Rolfes
said. The increased use of computers for reporting
student documentation and keeping track of all the
student assessments became more of a job than he
was interested in.
“Over the years, yes, education has changed,”
Rolfes said with a smile. “When I graduated from
college I thought I knew everything and in reality, I
knew nothing.”
Rolfes did his student teaching in Bellevue where
students were divided into tracks. His group of
students were track one students – the cream of the
crop. All the students responded in class and did
their homework. But when he signed a contract with
Homer, he experienced ‘culture shock’ he said.
“I knew how to write lesson plans but not how
to deal with those students who did not do their
homework and cared even less,” Rolfes said. “And
those students were in the classroom with all the
smart students. How do I deal with that?”
Over the years Rolfes learned to teach those
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