A Life's Lesson Learned - A great story and true!
04-16-2011, 10:17 AM
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Well, it COULD be true. Lots of teachers are good ones, and make a difference in their kids' lives. A difference that lasts for
years and years.
Personally, I absolutely and flatly refuse to go to basketball games and haven't at any time in my life since I was 14 years old. In school we had a big city basketball coach who hated "hillbilly hicks" and my cousins and I over heard a lot of that. That coach totally ruined my and a couple of cousins' joy in games, and to this day I flatly refuse and have refused all my life to play games with a group. And I'm 77 years old.
On the other hand, I can't remember any other teachers except for my 3rd grade one, Mrs. Trot. All of us disliked her because she was the toughest teacher in school, yet she taught us more than any other one in that school. We found ourselves fighting the "rich town kids" because they laughed at how she dressed..
but she taught us and insisted that we were smart enough to learn anything she taught. We didn't LIKE her, but we sure as heck respected her above all the others. Only other one I remember is the principle!!!! Went to visit him often for fighting, me and my cousins side by side on that hard bench outside his office.
years and years.
Personally, I absolutely and flatly refuse to go to basketball games and haven't at any time in my life since I was 14 years old. In school we had a big city basketball coach who hated "hillbilly hicks" and my cousins and I over heard a lot of that. That coach totally ruined my and a couple of cousins' joy in games, and to this day I flatly refuse and have refused all my life to play games with a group. And I'm 77 years old.
On the other hand, I can't remember any other teachers except for my 3rd grade one, Mrs. Trot. All of us disliked her because she was the toughest teacher in school, yet she taught us more than any other one in that school. We found ourselves fighting the "rich town kids" because they laughed at how she dressed..
but she taught us and insisted that we were smart enough to learn anything she taught. We didn't LIKE her, but we sure as heck respected her above all the others. Only other one I remember is the principle!!!! Went to visit him often for fighting, me and my cousins side by side on that hard bench outside his office.
04-16-2011, 04:11 PM
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Awesome story! Thank you so much for sharing it!
Reminds me of my favorite 5th grade teacher, Mr. Taliafaro! He was an awesome teacher. He really knew how to communicate with us kids and really listened to us as kids when hardly any adults did at that time. Sad thing was he had a heart attack and died during Christmas break. He was in his late 40's early 50's, and never sick! His teaching skills definitely changed me for the better and his sudden, unexpected death changed me negatively. Thank you for bringing up the awesome memories of a great teacher.
Reminds me of my favorite 5th grade teacher, Mr. Taliafaro! He was an awesome teacher. He really knew how to communicate with us kids and really listened to us as kids when hardly any adults did at that time. Sad thing was he had a heart attack and died during Christmas break. He was in his late 40's early 50's, and never sick! His teaching skills definitely changed me for the better and his sudden, unexpected death changed me negatively. Thank you for bringing up the awesome memories of a great teacher.
04-17-2011, 03:28 AM
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I work in a school as a speech pathologist and I always say no matter who the child is that it is someones daughter or son. How would I want my child treated? I have never seen a teacher take pleasure in putting an F on a paper. I have seen them take entire lunch breaks discussing strategies to teach a child better so they never have to give that child another F ever again.
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