There's nothing like good teachers, and I was mostly fortunate there, although my first grade teacher was terrible, and my third grade teacher was stuck with a lousy curriculum and too many kids in the class (30-plus). (second grade was a good private school on the other side of the country.)
There's nothing like good teachers, and I was mostly fortunate there, although my first grade teacher was terrible, and my third grade teacher was stuck with a lousy curriculum and too many kids in the class (30-plus). (second grade was a good private school on the other side of the country.)
I have two teachers I can remember - one (still a friend) who "opened the door to my life" for me - and one who was the stupidest fuckhead I ever met in 12 years of that. The rest are a grey mass of also-rans.
I had a second-grade teacher who was very, very twisted. she was a knockout redhead with a pornographic body who actually seemed to like hitting kids. she's put a passage on the board, tell us to copy it three times, while she opened her wardrobe and--I swear to god--did all kinds of twisty, sexy things while she kept reapplying herlipstick. it was so weird, no one in class mentioned it for several months.
since my second grade was housed in a junior high school (long, boring story here) I'd copy the passage once and sneak out the back door. she'd send big kids to find and return me.
one day, she sent me to the vice-principal's office, where I started to read one of the books on his desk...a book for tenth graders. he noticed and had me read for him, at which point, he told me that whenever I was bored, I was free to visit his office and read with him. that first visit was my first encounter with one of the magnificent teachers I'm talking about, and it was the first game-changer.
Amazing stories! And what a weird teacher. I mean, those behaviors might have a place between consenting adults, but in a second grade class?!!! That is effin weird.
There's nothing like good teachers, and I was mostly fortunate there, although my first grade teacher was terrible, and my third grade teacher was stuck with a lousy curriculum and too many kids in the class (30-plus). (second grade was a good private school on the other side of the country.)
I have two teachers I can remember - one (still a friend) who "opened the door to my life" for me - and one who was the stupidest fuckhead I ever met in 12 years of that. The rest are a grey mass of also-rans.
I had a second-grade teacher who was very, very twisted. she was a knockout redhead with a pornographic body who actually seemed to like hitting kids. she's put a passage on the board, tell us to copy it three times, while she opened her wardrobe and--I swear to god--did all kinds of twisty, sexy things while she kept reapplying herlipstick. it was so weird, no one in class mentioned it for several months.
since my second grade was housed in a junior high school (long, boring story here) I'd copy the passage once and sneak out the back door. she'd send big kids to find and return me.
one day, she sent me to the vice-principal's office, where I started to read one of the books on his desk...a book for tenth graders. he noticed and had me read for him, at which point, he told me that whenever I was bored, I was free to visit his office and read with him. that first visit was my first encounter with one of the magnificent teachers I'm talking about, and it was the first game-changer.
Amazing stories! And what a weird teacher. I mean, those behaviors might have a place between consenting adults, but in a second grade class?!!! That is effin weird.