‘Back to the Future’ Day at Bentworth
Bentworth Middle School Principal David Schreiber wears a 1980s-style costume Wednesday, when the staff and students focused their studies on the decade to mark “Back to the Future” Day.
Bentworth Middle School eighth-grader David Gucker appeared in classes Wednesday as Slash from the band Guns N’ Roses during a celebration of “Back to the Future Day.” Math teacher Stacy Skerbetz is at right.
Bentworth Middle School Earth, space and science teacher Glenn Smith takes the driver’s seat of a DeLorean dressed as Doc Brown Wednesday as the school celebrated “Back to the Future Day.”
BENTLEYVILLE – Bentworth Middle School teachers wore big-hair wigs and focused their lessons on the 1980s Wednesday to jump on the “Back to the Future” Day bandwagon.
One of them played portions of the Michael Jackson “Thriller” music video in class while a science teacher discussed biomes and paleontology to teach students about events and the culture of the decade of the 1989 movie “Back to the Future Part II,” in which main character Marty McFly time-traveled to Oct. 21, 2015.
A local physician also loaned the school his silver DeLorean for the day, the car that was the time machine device in the movie trilogy.
“I can’t figure out what was worse, the clothing or the music,” said sixth-grade math teacher Stacy Skerbetz, who graduated from Bentworth High School in 1988.
“It’s just been a lot of fun” said Skerbetz, who wore a shoulder-length black wig and a Lynyrd Skynyrd T-shirt.
Principal David Schreiber said teachers embraced the day as one came to school as Doc Brown from the movie, and another dressed up as Princess Diana and she even practiced the British accent for the event.
“The entire staff and students went back to the ’80s,” Schreiber said.
“They’re doing a lot of comparing and contrasting about what they predicted in the movie,” he said. Among the things predicted were video glasses and video chatting, the Chicago Cubs winning the World Series, hoverboards and flying cars.