"X-FILES" EDUCATION
Okay, Frank, since you are getting so many stories about what "The X-Files" means to people, here's mine...
I watched "The X-Files" from the premiere of the pilot, when I was 19 years old. The movie opened on the same day I officially earned my MA in Education. I just barely made the early afternoon graduation ceremony because I watched the first showing of the "X-Files" movie in the morning. I left my graduation dinner early that night to go see it again.
That summer, before I started teaching in the fall, I went to see the "X-Files" movie 10 times in the theaters. (Yes, I counted. I wanted to drive up ticket revenue.)
When I became a middle school teacher, many of my 6th grade students were "X-Files" fans. I had a shrine to "The X-Files" in my classroom and I received many "X-Files" gifts from my students (action figures, postcards, hand-made drawings of Mulder and Scully, etc.) To be dismissed, the students had to clean their work areas, sit down, and link arms in "X's" (they LOVED this and I still have a picture of them all sitting down, backpacks on, and arms linked).
These kids are now college-aged, and a few of them came back to say how much they are looking forward to the new movie...
And I still have the shrine up for today's middle schoolers, so that the next generation will be educated properly and know what quality entertainment is.
Thank you for many wonderful years of entertainment!
Laura
Capitola, CA
I watched "The X-Files" from the premiere of the pilot, when I was 19 years old. The movie opened on the same day I officially earned my MA in Education. I just barely made the early afternoon graduation ceremony because I watched the first showing of the "X-Files" movie in the morning. I left my graduation dinner early that night to go see it again.
That summer, before I started teaching in the fall, I went to see the "X-Files" movie 10 times in the theaters. (Yes, I counted. I wanted to drive up ticket revenue.)
When I became a middle school teacher, many of my 6th grade students were "X-Files" fans. I had a shrine to "The X-Files" in my classroom and I received many "X-Files" gifts from my students (action figures, postcards, hand-made drawings of Mulder and Scully, etc.) To be dismissed, the students had to clean their work areas, sit down, and link arms in "X's" (they LOVED this and I still have a picture of them all sitting down, backpacks on, and arms linked).
These kids are now college-aged, and a few of them came back to say how much they are looking forward to the new movie...
And I still have the shrine up for today's middle schoolers, so that the next generation will be educated properly and know what quality entertainment is.
Thank you for many wonderful years of entertainment!
Laura
Capitola, CA
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