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MW
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 Posted: 12/07/05 - 12:30 Post subject: Coach's thread brought back an unexptected memory. Teachers!
This one's for you.
Dear Middle School Gym Teacher:
Remember after I was beaten up by those two girls in the 8th grade? Remember when I used to sit outside the office and I was so scared and so sick to my stomach and my whole motivation was getting out of the school before they could catch me? Remember when I used to ask to be sent home because I felt sick every day?
Remember when you took me outside to the ramp by wood shop and you looked very hard at me and said:
"Alia, you aren't sick. What you are is afraid and totally stressed out and that is natural. You had something really bad happen to you and what you are feeling is totally okay."
And you let me cry and tell you how scared I was. And that even though they hit me, I didn't hit them back because I said I wasn't going to fight and I meant it.
Then you led me back inside and back to my class.
Mr. Gym Teacher, I used to make fun of you with all the other kids. On that day, you were my hero. I just though you should know.
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airehead
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 13:29 Post subject:
Dear HS math teacher:
You remember that day, early in the year when I quietly asked a question and you answered in front of the whole class that if I was asking that I had no business being in your math class?
You were right. And at that point when you chose to embarrass a student rather than foster their faltering love of math--you succeeded in pushing another student away.
Thank you for that.
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coachmarkos
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 13:29 Post subject:
Thanks for sharing that Maddie.
See, us gym teachers can make a difference!
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purple hayes
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 13:31 Post subject:
Dear Gym Teacher,
Remember that day when you literally kicked my ass? Thanks, I needed that.
Motivating through shame,
PH
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HYPERASHEL
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 13:38 Post subject:
Mr Azores, thanks for killing my intrest in "the Classics" 10th grade
Ms Connors oops Ms Connors was 7th grade, Thanks for seeing my love for biology and science and for encouraging it. Aslo for making my first year in Catholic schools more tolerable, there was a lot of new things for me to get used too that year.
Sister Joan, just thanks for more than you ever knew 9 & 11th grades
6th grade Bee-yotch thanks for nuffing, cuz that's what you did, NOTHING
Mrs. Parvin, thanks for the feeling of family, she taught my Uncle and my Aunt, 3rd grade
4-5th grade teacher, Mrs Marlin Thankyou for seeing that while i was smart, i was different and for trying new techniques with me. I wish more had tried too.
edited for 4-5th grade teascher's name <how do i forget a fish name?>
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robp
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 14:05 Post subject:
Mr. Landis - 9th grade algebra, thanks for confusing the living hell out of me and every other kid in the class. But, since your major was phys. ed., I guess you didn't know any better.
Mr. I forgot your name - 8th grade wood shop teacher. I've never been hit that hard in my life before or after that day. Jeebus was my ass sore.
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airehead
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 14:08 Post subject:
| coachmarkos wrote: | Thanks for sharing that Maddie.
See, us gym teachers can make a difference! |
I honestly had never had a good experience with a PE teacher until I subbed for one. (I had a blast--made me want to get my degree in teaching and be a PE teacher)
The next best experience: my son's 8th grade PE teacher. He encouraged Aire Jr to try for sports and then encouraged him to share his abilities with other kids who didn't get it. Even talked to the HS soccer coach to invite Aire Jr to tryouts.
Kudos to my son's 8th grade PE teacher.
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gretriever
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 14:18 Post subject:
Dear English History (pre-1800) Prof at UW-Superior:
I still don't give a rat's arse what the hell King Charles the First ate.
Have a nice day.
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crazyfrog
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Posted: 12/07/05 - 14:22 Post subject:
dear ms luckett:
thanks so much for being an awesome teacher even though some students took advantage of you and the other teachers didnt like you. you got me interested in herpetology and got me connected with quite possibly one of the best teachers i had in college.
dear 7th grade gym teacher:
those shorts went out of style in the 1970s. please purchase some new ones that arent so tight.
dear dr grober:
thanks for not being an a$$hole about me getting my stuff done in the lab. and thanks for giving me all the opportunites that you could and honestly being proud of the work that i do.
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