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A modern history teacher has delighted his students once again with a lengthy tangent on Cuba, the cold war and American hegemony, which has once again ended with that time he saw Midnight Oil in the 90s.
“It always ends with Midnight Oil, every damn time” said Dylan Cheshire (17), one of the students.
Mr. Barclay (58), a veteran modern history teacher at a local high school and known “bad boy” amongst the schools teaching faculty, is prone to make long rambling tangents about 20th century historical events like he’s at a kick-ons in 1993.
“Ahh bloody Fidel Castro! I tell you what him and his brother were a handful for the Americans! So was Che Guevera too…. it’s a shame these new age bloody greenies love wearing t-shirts with his face on it.. Isn’t that ironic! capitalism in full effect! Back when I was your age we were protesting South Africa at the Town hall, and we weren’t wearing expensive T-shirts either…That’s the thing with your generation, you got all the gear but no idea! You love to play revolutionaries with your bloody starbucks lattes and Che Guevara shirts! It was a different time back then! We were going to illegal gigs during the night and protesting the next morning! even got to see Midnight Oil at a house party gig, they were the real deal i tell ya…” Mr. Barclay said to a class full of students that had zero clue what he was talking about.
The recent tangent has left many students to the same conclusion:
All roads lead to Midnight Oil in the 90s.
Mr. Barclay, who considers most of his colleagues “squares”, says it’s great to be able to chat to the younger generation — Who he feels more of a connection with.
“It can be a burden being the “cool teacher” but it’s just who I am” Mr. Barclay explained while slicking back his hair, wearing a black leather jacket and hiking boots.
While Mr. Barclay has spent many years tailoring his cool, edgy, gen-X image, it isn’t quite resonating with many of his students.
“I don’t really know what he’s saying most of the time and he calls me a pussy for smoking a vape and not cigarettes, but he doesn’t care if I’m late to class so I guess that’s cool” said another student.
