What School teachers influenced you the most.

hollydolly said:
Our Horticulture teacher was a pervert. One time he held my brothers friend back after class, so my brother waited outside the classroom for him, and within a few minutes he heard some commotion and his friend screaming..( we were about 14 at the time ).. my brother tried to go into the class only to find the door locked from inside, so he kicked it in, to find the teacher manhandling his friend.. my brother picked up a big science stool and hit the teacher with it..
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Oh yuck, how abusive. I'm so sorry. No, ours was nice.
 

In the 7 th grade, I went to a public junior high school after spending grades 1-6 in Catholic school. I had science class for the first time and I was so enthralled with it all that the other kids made fun of me. To them, it was all old news .
I loved science so much that I became the best student in the class and my science teacher loved me as I did him. He called me “ Flower” and he would come and get me out of other classes and we would watch French films together! He was the best!
 

Radrook said:
What was the teacher from hell doing to you kids?
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Her apparent goal in life seemed to be to suck the last drop of the joy of learning out of every student. She reinforced that by humiliation, lots of it.

Her name was mentioned in a post on our class Facebook page recently and I swear a cold chill was felt by hundreds of ex-pupils across the country. I've never met a fellow classmate who liked her.

I survived.
 
jujube said:
Her apparent goal in life seemed to be to suck the last drop of the joy of learning out of every student. She reinforced that by humiliation, lots of it.

Her name was mentioned in a post on our class Facebook page recently and I swear a cold chill was felt by hundreds of ex-pupils across the country. I've never met a fellow classmate who liked her.

I survived.
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Weren't the kids telling the parents about this?
 
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At school, a teacher with impeccable handwriting, taught us the rudimentary of Italic Script. Most kids found it difficult, I just took to it, and it has served me well throughout life. Thanks to Mrs. Peers, that talented teacher, my handwriting still draws lots of comments.
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I often think about this seeing that I was a teacher for 43 years and I do hope that many of my students think about this and some include me in their conversation.

One teacher that sticks out for me is my 5th Grade Language Arts/Reading Teacher Mrs. Zimmerman. She was the teacher that really introduced me to my love of reading that I enjoy now. Growing up, I was not the fastest reader, but I still enjoyed reading. I got frustrated because it took me so long to read a book. Mrs. Zimmerman told me it wasn't about how fast you read a book it was about how you comprehend what is between those pages in the book that counts. From that time she told me that, I never worried about reading fast, but really understand what I was reading. My joy of reading exploded.
 
My 11th and 12th grade English teacher, which was same person and my Physical Education teacher in the same grades. He was a retired Marine that served in Korea. He was definitely a good storyteller.
 
Well, this isn't a Mr. Chips type story. I was about 8 and I had a nun teaching a religion class about Moses. She related that God destroyed all the Egyptians animals- cows, chickens, sheep, horses, donkeys, etc., in one of the plaques. Finally, Moses left Egypt, but the Pharoh sent his cavalry to slay the Israelites. I raised my hand. I asked where Pharoh got the horses for his cavalry. ( since all the horses throughout Egypt died). I remember she started, "Well, of course......". And it dawned on her there was a problem. She couldn't answer it. Her reaction got me thinking that maybe this religion stuff might not hold water.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
Well, this isn't a Mr. Chips type story. I was about 8 and I had a nun teaching a religion class about Moses. She related that God destroyed all the Egyptians animals- cows, chickens, sheep, horses, donkeys, etc., in one of the plaques. Finally, Moses left Egypt, but the Pharoh sent his cavalry to slay the Israelites. I raised my hand. I asked where Pharoh got the horses for his cavalry. ( since all the horses throughout Egypt died). I remember she started, "Well, of course......". And it dawned on her there was a problem. She couldn't answer it. Her reaction got me thinking that maybe this religion stuff might not hold water.
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For me it was the one that I married after I got out of the Navy. We had 63 good years together.

We had a boy and a girl and the girl had a girl and a boy.

She passed away in Dec of 2022, I greatly miss her.
 
I had a high school English teacher who rounded up all the seniors who were going to attend UC Berkeley. We were destined to take a UC English exam first thing in college. Thanks to the work of that teacher I whizzed through the exam without a problem and I believe all my fellow classmates did the same.
 
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Aging Audra said:
Manatee said:
For me it was the one that I married after I got out of the Navy. We had 63 good years together.

We had a boy and a girl and the girl had a girl and a boy.

She passed away in Dec of 2022, I greatly miss her.
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s between those pages in the book that counts. From that time she told me that, I never worried about reading fast, but really understand what I was reading. My joy of reading exploded.
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So she had been your teacher and you later married her? Did I understand you right?
 
The teachers who impressed me most seemed progressive; maybe because I grew up in an area where it seemed every guy was trying to be a cross between Hugh Hefner, Gordon Gecko, Don Draper, and Ebenezer Scrooge (and that's what it seemed all the gals around me wanted in a man, including me 'till I grew out of it).
 
Manatee said:
No she was a student that I dated. When I was in the Navy we were pen pals, and she sent me boxes of cookies. When I got out we dated and then married.
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As male students we used to fantasize about some of the attractive female school teachers. Which is considered normal, of course. What is not considered normal is a teacher taking such interest in the student. So I guess that the temptation goes both ways. I recall one very attractive female teacher who seemed to be interested in me as a teenager. Had I been more confident in myself, things would have gotten very steamy very soon. Of course, that would have been considered a crime on her part.
 
ironic that I had the same experience. Pretty much as you described. Years later I put it together, but at the time, other than her calling me out of another class because she had a flat tire. I fixed it, of course. Why call me? now I understand.
Too inexperienced to understand what was going on at the time.
As you have said, she would have been in trouble. Hindsight tells me that ignorants is bliss, in this case.
I still remember her.
 

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