Teachers paid an important role in my life, as I’m sure they did in many of your lives.\u00a0 Here are a few:<\/p>\n
Miss Wolleson.\u00a0 My kindergarten teacher, most memorable for me being surprised that she spanked kids.\u00a0 When I shared this shocking news to my parents, I was informed that if I ever got spanked at school, I’d be spanked at home, too!\u00a0 Yikes! (I never got spanked at school.)<\/p>\n
Mrs. Reusch.\u00a0 Second grade.\u00a0 She died earlier this year.\u00a0 She was incredibly kind and kind of reminded me of my grandmother (on my father’s side).<\/p>\n
Mrs. Koenig.\u00a0 Fourth grade.\u00a0 A first year teacher who I and many others thought was the greatest.<\/p>\n
Mrs Coacher.\u00a0 Seventh grade English. She wrote “A” on one chalkboard and “lot” on the other chalkboard the first day of school.\u00a0 Then she explained that those two words never, ever went together when writing about “a lot” of anything.\u00a0 That had a powerful impact on me and many others — as they testified when we learned of her death earlier this year.<\/p>\n
Mr. Schmidtke.\u00a0 Seventh grade reading.\u00a0 Our classroom was right outside the school cafeteria, and “You’re so Vain” was blaring out the jukebox every day for months, and our class was held in the lunch hour block.\u00a0 One day, he asked us all if we knew what “vain” meant.\u00a0 None of us knew.\u00a0 He taught a lesson in knowing the words we’re chanting in songs and what they mean.<\/p>\n
Mr. Huber.\u00a0 A first year teacher who was a last minute hire to teach my 8th grade history class when my planned teacher died the week before school started.\u00a0 He’d done his student teaching in our school district the year before and rented a room in a house across the street from us, so I sort of “knew” him.\u00a0 He called me a “radical” when we were learning about political systems.\u00a0 I doubt that would fit today.<\/p>\n
Mr. Kerr.\u00a0 High school biology, chemistry, and advanced biology.\u00a0 He challenged me every single day but also got me a year long pass out of last hour study hall so I could work in his back room doing anything he needed done or just to hang out there if he didn’t need anything.\u00a0 I’d worked really hard on my biology notebook one grading period.\u00a0 He only gave me a “B.”\u00a0 I asked him about it, he said it could have been better.\u00a0 The next grading period, I typed the whole notebook and exercised great care with the drawings, and it earned an “A.”<\/p>\n
Mr. Rose.\u00a0 Junior and senior English.\u00a0 Rose’s Rules and his reading list were key factors in me testing out of Freshman College English.<\/p>\n
There are more, but these are few who made the greatest impact on my life.<\/p>\n
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