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Originally Posted by WenD08
my worst teacher was Mrs. Goggins, my 4th grade teacher at Infant Jesus of Prague in Flossmoor, IL. she embarassed me in front of the whole class which was mortifying to as a new student at the school   |
Small world....my step-grandmother's funeral was last weekend at Infant Jesus of Prague in Flossmoor, IL. Quite a place.
I don't know about worst teachers...but there are memorable moments from most of my teachers...all vingettes and snipes I associate with them.
Most notable...
Pam Matthews, my third grade teacher at New Heights Elementary in Ft. Walton Beach, FL. I remember her because she was fairly young and quite hip. And her name was Pam...just like 3 of us in her class.
Mrs. Fenwick, my fifth grade teacher for the first part of the year at a DoD school on Ramstein AFB, Germany. She was an english major and pretty much that is all we did the whole of my time in her class...writing and poetry memorization. She did something quite unprofessional toward me (not sexual). I didn't tell my parents, but my best friend told her mom who told my mom. My parents went ballistic. (I was told to empty my desk and meet them in the Principal's office). My parents said I would be on the next plane headed stateside and they threatened IG involvement etc, if I was not out of her classroom immediately. When I got to my new class room (a Miss Dorothy Krolick, older who I learned to LOVE), I was woefully behind in math and science and had to work my butt of to catch up in 4 months. Mrs. Fenwick didn't teach again the next year.
Ms. Johnson (Susan I think) my sixth grade teacher (Southside Elementary Ramstein AFB). She was a refined southern woman, young, pretty fresh out of school. A bit homesick. As I look back, she was DEFINITELY a sorority debutante type, away from home on a "career woman" adventure before she settled down and married her lawyer boyfriend type.
My seventh grade science teacher. A Mr. Gilbert (I think). He was fabulous and I learned to LOVE physical science, so much I pursued it greatly in HS. I was the only girl in my whole section of advanced physical science/physics in 9th grade.
(liked breaking that gender barrier, the "guys" all learned to talk to me like a person one on one in class etc..pretty cool during the course of the day)
Mrs. Daniels, Drama Teacher, Redlands, HS, Redlands California. That woman was an inspiration and spirit to so many students. She opened her heart and her home to teach the love of theater and the pursuit of possiblities. What a generous soul.
Mr. John Hobbs, a LARGE ROUND black man, who was my 10th grade geometry teacher, Redlands HS, Redlands, CA.. He was also a council man in San Bernadino California. I remember so much of his class. He would get up and draw his graphs on the board to teach a concept and sing "I love to swimming with bowlegged women" and then he would turn to us, everytime, and say "you have to sing to get those marks to be evenly spaced". What a wonderful booming laugh. He was the coolest.
I think that is enough.