10 Qs with Joe Muskett
(PE/Driver’s Education Teacher) Reporting by Rebeka Rafi Photos by Sabrina Vazquez & Rebeka Rafi Page design by Bryan Chung
Why did you decide to retire this year?
What was your favorite part about teaching physical education?
When you have 30 years in the state, you are able to retire. Actually I have 39 [years of teaching]. I had nine in Texas, but by the time I came up, you still had to teach for 30 years to retire.
The whole realm of physical education—health, driver’s ed, all of that—you see the young men and women in an entirely different atmosphere. So, I would consider myself fortunate to see them in that way.
What hobbies do you have outside of school? [Coaches] devote so much time to our students and to coaching on the weekends, I’m looking to start some hobbies. I’ve really had none. If you had to see one McLean teacher for the rest of your life, who would it be? There are a lot of great teachers, but it would have to be Coach Don Vivacqua. We have shared an office now for a dozen years and he is a quality man.
What is your main goal for retirement?
I’d get to the water. Get to the water and get a boat, because I don’t think that those zombies can swim.
There are hundreds of kids that disappear in America every year. I’d like to do something, even just volunteering answering phones, something like that, and help find the children in America.
Do you know when your last day at McLean will be?
Who is your favorite celebrity?
What would be your first action if there were a zombie apocalypse?
My official last day is Jan. 1, Elvis Presley because he 2018, but I’ll probably go out influenced so many people What otherwith occupations a little earlier, right around his music.have you had in the past? Thanksgiving. My major in college was education If you were able to have any and Phys Ed majors, they typically superpower in the world, what would run pools, they work at camps, and I it be and why? gravitated towards swimming pools forItawould long time. be to fly, because forever I have thought that it would be pretty cool to be an airline pilot. What is the worst excuse you have heard as a teacher or as a coach? A kid said he had to go where his family business was raising elephants and he had to go to his uncle’s farm to help with the elephants. It was so | FEATURES | 17 bizarre youNOVEMBER had to believe it.