It was an extremely tough decision, but having recently made it, I was feeling exceedingly proud. I had just recently made the VERY scary, life-altering decision to abort my previous plan of attending some Big 10 school, in order to study music at a local community college, and REALLY try to pursue music as a career. My buddy explained that he was planning on going away to a state college…and this news seemed to please her. Since we were approaching the end of our senior year in high school, she naturally asked us about our plans for the following year. Something I had never experienced with any other teachers before then. But most of me thinks she enjoyed the sound of 30 kids laughing at the person she had chosen to single out.Īnd while I was never the topic of her verbal abuse, her treatment of other students led me to severely lock horns with her on quite a few occasions. A very small part of me thinks she honestly believed that this might be helpful, like some misguided “scared straight” tactic. She would describe their miserable future lives to us…complete with details about the crappy fast food restaurant, in which they would certainly be a fry cook. Singling out kids who were having trouble with her class, she would loudly, and comically predict their futures for the class. I wouldn’t say she had favorite students, but she CLEARLY had least favorites, and her demeanor constantly let everyone know who was who. In fact, she was probably my *least* favorite.ĭuring the course of my time in her classroom, I saw her unapologetically reduce several of my classmates to tears. We hadn’t been there since the end of 8th grade, so we were just having some fun by wandering around the building to see how things had changed.Īs we were walking, we ran into a teacher that both of us had in 7th grade. Towards the end of my senior year of high school, a friend and I somehow wound up walking around our old middle school.
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