monkey nonsense

just got an email from a high school classmate (the one who organized our 5 year reunion) about a teacher at one of the feeder elementary schools who’s in danger of getting fired. even though i never had this teacher (i went to another elementary school after kindergarten), i feel as if she was a great teacher! my sister had her… and i can remember all the stories she told me about this teacher. i always wanted this teacher because of the great things i heard about her.

teaching is such a honorable profession, teachers make such a lasting impression on kids. anyone else remember all their teachers growing up? i remember….:

• elementary school: quist (good), montgomery (not so good), strade (barely knew because she had a baby that year)/powers (bad), sheehan (good), diggs (one of my favorites), tehrani (another favorite), feldman (ok), katz (ok), dvorak (good)
• middle school: furfine (good)/ herman (bad!)/stein (alright)/cornell (ok, funny man at least)/tischler (ok)/milne (another fav)/RH (ok… a math teacher teaching gym!??), chase (ok)/herman (again!)/kaplan (ok)/wing (another fav)/poirer (ok)/hinkle (not that great)/sansom (good)
• high school: canham (ok)/parsons (good)/rakshpal (good)/stross (ok)/bascom (good), heyman (a fav)/leavitt (eh.. the lady who made me come into school sick with mono)/brodsky (ok)/adler (ok)/whitley (eh), broadman (ok)/gasser (good)/brasoveanu (ok), storck (good)/allison (ok)/musgrove (ok), trettel (good), cox (ok)/mccain (ok), shire (ok), ross (ok)/hampton (ok)… i’m actually missing a couple of math and english teachers there… i’m missing the algebra 2 teacher who used to make fun of me whenever i DID do homework (because it wasn’t that often)… this teacher is also the one who erased blackboards weirdly (mariam imitated her)… anyone? anyone? and i’m missing the english teacher i had with janet and vicky (remember our dr. catholic, irish-catholic, russian jew, chinese “me no english” immigrant skit?)

even if the teacher sucked, i still remember the teachers distinctly (even teachers whose names i’ve forgotten now ) and things the teachers did like sprinkling fairy dust on us before we took the maryland state exam, being obsessed with garfield, “is it true? it is true!”, being a seinfeld fan, warning us to “flee to safety” whenever the fire alarm would sound, and always telling us that teachers do indeed have lives outside of school (a difficult concept to grasp when you’re just a kid).

anyone who went to lakewood, didn’t get that email, and wants to help out mrs. kim, let me know. i can forward it to you. (incidentally, it seems it is the asian community who is trying to force mrs. kim out, go figure! asians… finally getting off their butts and getting involved! … and to get rid of a great teacher, no less )

most of my favorite teachers growing up were my favorite because i remember doing fun and exciting projects in their classes (sheehan, diggs, tehrani). later on, my favorite teachers were the ones that taught me more stuff (heyman, parsons, gasser). who were your favorite teachers growing up?

edit: teacher who wipes blackboards weirdly – kovarcik!! teacher from dr. catholic skit – solomon!!

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