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Teachers you had growing up

qualitygal — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 09:08:20 GMT

Got to thinking this a.m. about a teacher I had in Jr. HI. Could not remember his name, nor what he taught, or anything I learned in his classes. However, I do remember he use to take the chalk from the chalkboard and knock it against his top front teeth. Wierd habit I do remember.

So I was wondering, did any of you have any memories of a teacher? Anything at all.

I had other great teachers though. One other story I remember too. But I'll share that some other time.

Re: Teachers you had growing up

twinny70 — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:12:19 GMT

What a fun topic.

I had a teacher in Jr. High (1961) that had such a tiny waist she could stand in front of the class in her 3" hi heels and her hands would meet when she put them around her waist. She had so many pairs of shoes that I never saw her wear the same pair twice.

We are on a two weeks road trip and I just woke up. Getting back to WI on Monday or Tuesday.

Glenda

Re: Teachers you had growing up

ECBG — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:34:41 GMT

I had a darling teacher in the second grade. She was a nun and they wore full habits. She was very young, tall, thin, and graceful.

I remember her pulling up her skirts and jumping rope with us.

I had a wonderful professor in collage that taught tailoring. I don't know how she followed fashion in 1972, in a mountain college, no less, but her clothes were wonderful. She seemed about 30 years old.

After an Easter break, she came in wearing wooden red patten leather platform sandals!

I wish I had known she moved a mile from us in her retirement!

Re: Teachers you had growing up

CAcableGirl2 — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:37:02 GMT

I had a blind teacher in elementary school - Miss Gold. I'm still amazed at how she was able to be a teacher. I sat in the front row and one time I slipped my shoes off and they apparently made their way in front of my desk area and she tripped (a little) on them. I was mortified!

What an inspiration she was!

Re: Teachers you had growing up

Oznell — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 12:06:55 GMT

These are great stories-- a child's eye view of these all-important adults in our lives.

I adored Mr. Harper, my 6th grade teacher. I think he was the prinicpal too, (?) of our little school which was right in the middle of our medium size Canadian city-- Mary Street School.

He physically very much resembled the actor James Drury, I realized later, from "The Virginian! Also very soft-spoken, kind and thoughtful. A teacher who commanded attention. He could quell any rowdy boys acting out, with just a word.

My mother was also impressed with him, and reported to me a conversation she had had with him about my future, which pleased me.

Great memories.

Re: Teachers you had growing up

Meowingkitty — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 12:36:26 GMT

I had a great teacher growing up. Mr. Carter. My first male teacher. There weren't many back then and I remember being scared when I was told I would be in his class. He would pull out the chairs of all his students when we would sit down in the lunch cafeteria. He would also grab the boys (never the girls) by they're shoulders and escort them to their desks or wherever if they were misbehaving. Couldn't do that today.

Re: Teachers you had growing up

NigelSparkles — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 12:54:11 GMT

The best teacher I ever had was in 4th grade, at my school in the Bronx. This was the early to mid 60's. She was the only black teacher in the school and the youngest one I'd ever had there. Always dressed in the latest fashion, looked like she stepped out of a magazine. mini-dresses with thigh high patent leather boots, great jewelry, strong perfume. She was extraordinarliy talented musically and would play the piano at all the school assemblies.

Every year each class would put on a play - hers were multi-act productions and always musicals. The entire school would turn out to watch them, parents too with standing room only. I found out many years later that in those years she had written a number of songs that were recorded by some singers and were moderately successful. Don't know what ever happened to her, I've searched online a few times but wasn't able to find any further information. There have been other memorable teachers as well, but many for not so wonderful reasons.

Re: Teachers you had growing up

shoptilyadropagain — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 13:08:06 GMT

I had the same teacher for kindergarten and second grade. In second grade she had a different last name and that was the first time I was really aware of divorce. She wore the same style shoe but had various colors of them. At the time I thought she went home every night and polished them a different color. Lol 😂. We both still live in the same town and I run into her occasionally. We're also friends on Facebook.

Re: Teachers you had growing up

yellowrose — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 13:38:20 GMT

3rd grade Mrs. Caskey. She looked just like Snow White and just as sweet.

1st grade, old Mrs. Stewart. Such a mean,scary lady. If we misbehaved she would

put us in a dark closet - that is until my mother had a "chat" with her. I didn't do well in

her class.

College Freshman Algebra Mr. Richards. Oh My Gosh, he was sooooo

handsome!!! I made an "A" in that class, my first time ever to get an

"A" in math.

Junior High Band Mr Klingsborn, all the girls had a crush on him.

Our hearts were crushed when we learned he was not only married,

but his wife was pregnant. So silly

Re: Teachers you had growing up

skatting44 — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 14:40:30 GMT

Can say that I had some terrific dedicated teachers, although my 1st grade teacher was a nut that the school finally fired after parents complained abt child abuse in her classroom.

Unfortunately , many children now a days have teachers who are to busy with their own agendas .

Re: Teachers you had growing up

ScrapHappy — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 14:49:52 GMT

My favorite teacher was my second grade teacher, Mrs. Rothman. My Mom worked part time at the school and when she told me Mrs. Rothman was retiring, I went to see her and wish her the best. Still was still as nice and caring as I remember.

My fourth grade teacher, for math, taught chess all year long. Just about the entire class went to summer school.

Mrs. Chin, first grade teacher, was very strict and mean. She'd pull you by your ear.

Re: Teachers you had growing up

ALRATIBA — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 15:37:06 GMT

Our high school Business Law teacher.

We had to memorize the law principles and be ready to recite the appropriate one when called upon.

When she passed away several years ago - the comments on our alumni FB page almost all recalled the same thing ... reciting law principles.

(funny thing .... it's been ?? years and I can still recite several!

Re: Teachers you had growing up

chrystaltree — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 17:18:49 GMT

Too many to list. I was an excellent student and I loved school. At all levels there were teachers who understood me, encouraged me, supported me. I particularly remember Miss Daley from elementary school. She lived in small house across from the school with her sister. The house looked like a gingerbread house. Some kids, me included, would visit her at home to talk, borrow books, play with her cat, do puzzles. Even when we moved on to middle school, we'd stop by just to say Hi to Miss Daley.

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KathyM23 — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 17:26:30 GMT

Seventh great teacher. My mother forgot day light savings time and sent us off to Sunday school an hour early. The teacher lived next to our Church and saw me and my brother outside and took us into her house.

My high school gym teacher broke her nose on the frame of the trampoline executing a flip.

Junior math teacher. Boyfriend came to pick me up after school and while we were still in class, he honked his horn and our teacher said in class, "She'll be right out. Everyone laughed.

Our first and 4th grade teachers were sisters, not married and lived together a couple blocks from me.

Our biology teacher - We called her "Bugsy"

Our football coach and history teacher. He was browbeating a girl in our class who didn't know something and made her cry. It made me so mad, I stood up and told him off. He got out the paddle and I ran from the room. He chased me down the hall and thru the gym. I left and went home.

I can remember something about all of my teachers, but this post is long enough. I am going down memory lane in my mind tho remembering them.

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Spurt — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:20:17 GMT

I remember an uncaring teacher in Elementary School, Mrs. Pickleseimer, we had moved and I changed Elementary Schools, the new school had already taught cursive writing, my old school wasnt going to teach it until after the Easter Break. So when I started her class she tossed a book at me and said, "here learn how to do cursive".....🙄 I learned cursive all by myself but always got a "B" and never an "A" and I always blamed that teacher for not working with me after class to teach me correctly!

In High School we had a Science Teacher, Mr. Birkner, who looked EXACTLY like Andy Griffith....One notable time in his class he brought a live tarantuala in a shoe box and had us pass it around....😯😖😫🕷

Had a real good looking Algebra I teacher, dont remember his name, but he always wore a bowtie...

Re: Teachers you had growing up

Spurt — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 18:16:22 GMT

@yellowrose wrote:
3rd grade Mrs. Caskey. She looked just like Snow White and just as sweet.

1st grade, old Mrs. Stewart. Such a mean,scary lady. If we misbehaved she would
put us in a dark closet - that is until my mother had a "chat" with her. I didn't do well in
her class.

College Freshman Algebra Mr. Richards. Oh My Gosh, he was sooooo
handsome!!! I made an "A" in that class, my first time ever to get an
"A" in math.

Junior High Band Mr Klingsborn, all the girls had a crush on him.
Our hearts were crushed when we learned he was not only married,
but his wife was pregnant. So silly

@yellowrose

My sister had first grade teacher like yours her name was Mrs. Lloyd, she also put kids in a dark closet and also taped their mouth's shut with duct tape......Thankfully, she liked my sister though, and even gave my siser the starring role in the 3 Bears school play.....

And I also wrote about my good looking Algebra teacher.(maybe it was a Texas requirement for Math teachers......LOL!!!! ) I got my best grade ever in math ---I guess I paid extra attention 😉

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Snowpuppy — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:07:54 GMT

Yep. 12th Grade, Mrs. Murray. Edith Bunker lookalike, sound alike. She taught stenography, 1st period.

All girls not college bound were encouraged to take Office Automation which was already dying, our HS had computers.

I skipped most days. One day I managed to attend class she shrieked " you'll never get anywhere in this life if you don't learn to take dictation from a MAN" !

So glad I never listened!😁

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CatsyCline — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 19:57:50 GMT

I remember being in 2nd grade. (1964) The school year was well underway. One day, the 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. D burst in the door with a 3rd grade boy by the arm and she and Mrs. J, my 2nd grade teacher just slammed him onto a chair by the side counter where the encyclopedia books were stored.

They said you're going back to 2nd grade!! Our desks, the old wooden kind, were all in rows, and no extra desks. So the kid, his name was Paul, not only got held back and humiliated, he had no desk for weeks because there were no spare desks anywhere in the building!

our 5th grade teacher was a man, Mr.B. The summer before, my mother's friend said he was corrupting our morals. When actually was attending his class it was obvious. Mr. B would describe how drug addicts die and their bodies turned gray from their feet up and when their neck was gray they died. He described his back injury when a car he was working on fell of the jack. He had us play mean games where kids ended up looking stupid. He would holler and yell at us and if the boys didn't tuck in their shirts he sewed lace on the boys' undershirts.

My 6th grade teacher was a bit better, no gory tales but he threw erasers at us.

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hckynutjohn — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 21:23:35 GMT

@qualitygal

My best memory of any teacher I had, was a negative. Sophomore English class. Teacher calls on me, in her class you stand up to answer. All my grades in her class were a 1(or A, depending on ones grading system), was an easy answer for me. What she said as I was about to sit down is my memory.

I was 14 and fat at that time. Her comment?

"John, you would be a very nice looking kid(boy) if you weren't so fat"!

Told this story on these forum many times in my 20+ years here. Forget? Still like it was a few days ago, and that was in 1954.

hckynut 🇺🇸

Re: Teachers you had growing up

CAcableGirl2 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 04:32:41 GMT

I had a history teacher in high school that was arrested for drugs. He taught the Government class.

Also had a music teacher in HS band all 4 years, that was a wonderful teacher, very disciplined, but fair. I remember him directing the band, and as he turned the pages following the song, the male drummers had put a Playboy magazine inside his book, and the look on his face was priceless. I distinctly remembering him telling us that if any of us were caught smoking, we were kicked out of the band. Those were some great years.