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List 10 odd facts about your old teachers
1. My first grade teacher was a cousin of one of the girls I had classes with in other years. Though their last name was spelled the same, the closely related families didn't pronounce it the same way.
2. My fifth and sixth grade teachers were married to each other.
3. My 7th grade math teacher got a kick out of breaking meter sticks. The school bought a large number of brittle, cheap plastic ones one year. The teacher got angry at the class one day and slammed one onto his desk. It flew to pieces. Still angry he got another out of the cabinet and broke it over the desk on purpose. He was smiling impishly by the time he got a third one out and broke it. For the rest of the year if some kid was not paying attention, this teacher would walk up two him and break a meter stick over his head. No, it never happened to me. The kids who it happened to always looked much more embarrassed than anything.
4. My 8th grade science teacher was the dumbest teacher I ever had. He was a old football player and played in the Orange Bowl back before World War II.
5 The same science teacher had lost a finger in an accident. My American Government teacher in high school had lost most of a hand in an accident with an airplane propeller. The government teacher used to gross everyone out by waving his stump around for emphasis when he spoke.
6. I had 3 different Freshman English teachers in High School, and two different Senior English teachers. My Freshman year one of the school's History teachers died in a car crash a few weeks into the fall. My sexy English teacher took over the deceased teacher's History classes. A retired English teacher was talked into returning to teach the English classes. She was there for about sixth months until she developed health problems. A woman who'd substituted for years in the district was eventually hired full time when it was clear number 2 could not return. My first English teacher my Senior year got married and quit after the first semester. The wife of one of the school's math teachers took over for her.
7. My physics teacher was going to have a demonstration having balls of pith attract from static electricity. The teacher turned toward one of my best friends and asked, "Do you know what pith is?" Ever on the ball, my friend answered confidently, "Yeth!"
8. We kids were sure that two of our Spanish teachers were dating since they frequently got into clearly passionate discussions between classes. We found out differently at the beginning of our Junior year. The woman married another math teacher that summer before school started. But the two Spanish teachers kept up their passionate discussions. Their mutual passion turned out to be about tennis and they were apparently a formidable mixed doubles team.
9. My American History class was so boring, I used to write notes to my girlfriend almost everyday in that class to pass before the next period when we'd see each other. This teacher repeatedly said I'd never do well in college because my notes for her class were not tidy and well organized. You just can't tell your high school teacher to her face, "I only write down what's worth remembering."
10. My Advanced Chemistry teacher never learned properly how to pronounce many words vital to chemistry, like 'oxygen', 'chlorine", 'formula' and others. It wasn't a speech defect, he just learned them all wrong. We always understood him, but no one copied his pronunciation in class!
1. My first grade teacher was a cousin of one of the girls I had classes with in other years. Though their last name was spelled the same, the closely related families didn't pronounce it the same way.
2. My fifth and sixth grade teachers were married to each other.
3. My 7th grade math teacher got a kick out of breaking meter sticks. The school bought a large number of brittle, cheap plastic ones one year. The teacher got angry at the class one day and slammed one onto his desk. It flew to pieces. Still angry he got another out of the cabinet and broke it over the desk on purpose. He was smiling impishly by the time he got a third one out and broke it. For the rest of the year if some kid was not paying attention, this teacher would walk up two him and break a meter stick over his head. No, it never happened to me. The kids who it happened to always looked much more embarrassed than anything.
4. My 8th grade science teacher was the dumbest teacher I ever had. He was a old football player and played in the Orange Bowl back before World War II.
5 The same science teacher had lost a finger in an accident. My American Government teacher in high school had lost most of a hand in an accident with an airplane propeller. The government teacher used to gross everyone out by waving his stump around for emphasis when he spoke.
6. I had 3 different Freshman English teachers in High School, and two different Senior English teachers. My Freshman year one of the school's History teachers died in a car crash a few weeks into the fall. My sexy English teacher took over the deceased teacher's History classes. A retired English teacher was talked into returning to teach the English classes. She was there for about sixth months until she developed health problems. A woman who'd substituted for years in the district was eventually hired full time when it was clear number 2 could not return. My first English teacher my Senior year got married and quit after the first semester. The wife of one of the school's math teachers took over for her.
7. My physics teacher was going to have a demonstration having balls of pith attract from static electricity. The teacher turned toward one of my best friends and asked, "Do you know what pith is?" Ever on the ball, my friend answered confidently, "Yeth!"
8. We kids were sure that two of our Spanish teachers were dating since they frequently got into clearly passionate discussions between classes. We found out differently at the beginning of our Junior year. The woman married another math teacher that summer before school started. But the two Spanish teachers kept up their passionate discussions. Their mutual passion turned out to be about tennis and they were apparently a formidable mixed doubles team.
9. My American History class was so boring, I used to write notes to my girlfriend almost everyday in that class to pass before the next period when we'd see each other. This teacher repeatedly said I'd never do well in college because my notes for her class were not tidy and well organized. You just can't tell your high school teacher to her face, "I only write down what's worth remembering."
10. My Advanced Chemistry teacher never learned properly how to pronounce many words vital to chemistry, like 'oxygen', 'chlorine", 'formula' and others. It wasn't a speech defect, he just learned them all wrong. We always understood him, but no one copied his pronunciation in class!