Your best teacher

[Freya]

My 9th grade Advanced English Teacher. She was very witty and used sarcasm a lot. It made me love her because she acted herself and not all uppity.

My Journalism teacher from 10-12th. She was younger and was just generally nice and awesome. I would bring her star bucks in the mornings

My World History Teacher in 10th grade for one semester. She had monty python figures around her room and would just make fun classes that made history much more interesting than the drone of "this happened then.. remember it." Which led to me taking...

AP European History. My Teacher There was an old funny man. He wasn't afraid to tell you to stop talking cause you sounded like a cawing bird. He treated us like people rather than just students. Many other teachers didn't put any effort into talking to us on a personal level. They always left it professional Student-teacher so when he made an effort to just treat us like people, we were more interested in his class and actually being there. I had it for my last class of the day and instead of thinking "ughhh I want the day to be over" I WANTED to be there.

[Fujiko]

1. Mr. Kronqvist

Was he Swedish?

No that's totally an asian name

Kronqvist (alt Kronquist) is a very common Swedish last name, PG.

[The Man]

Haven't you learned not to take pg seriously yet?

[Fujiko]

Just saying.

[Yeargdribble]

The flip answer would be my senior English teacher with whom I had a torrid affair for nearly my entire senior year. She was actually a great teacher and was always ruthlessly fair on my grades despite our relationship. Odd ending... she was accused by another student of doing something inappropriate with him at her apartment. This student didn't like her and knew the fastest way to get rid of a teacher is to accuse them of sexual misconduct. I couldn't really use my alibi to his BS story.

"Umm... Chris couldn't have been there getting fondled by her that night because I was there f***ing her until 3 in the morning..."

Wouldn't have exactly gotten her out of hot water. She had to resign, but it all worked out anyway.





More seriously though, my Dr. Jeff Gershman was my wind ensemble conductor, conducting teacher, and more importantly, my Music History teacher 1800-present. He was a brilliant guy with a brilliant personality. He made things very not dry. He was very personable and good friends with both me and my wife. He taught his class in a very different way and with an unusual gusto. His class made me consider pursuing a degree in Musicology at the Jacobs School of Music at Indiana University since it has one of the best musicology programs in the world.


Ironically, right as he was filling out his stuff to be a tenured professor at my university... he was offered a job as the assistant director of bands at.... Indiana University. My last year of college was a fiasco of epic proportions and his replacement was a man I ended up having very little respect for. I lost my zeal for pursuing my masters though I'm quite happy with my current job.

Right before he left he asked me and my wife into his office and closed the door. He told us that we were the ones he was going to miss the most. We all had a bit of a tearful moment. I was really sad. Everyone loved him and everyone felt a little betrayed for a while.

But it was really a great move for me. Not only was it his alma mater, but it's one of the most respected music schools in the country and he now has the job second in command. That means he will undoubtedly be the primary conductor of the Indiana University Wind Ensemble one day.... which is a very prestigious thing in the concert band world.

I miss him dearly. He has been without a doubt the most influential teacher of my life.

[blackmage_nuke]

My favourite highschool teachers were the ones who knew their subject and taught it. Any flair or personality was an added bonus, they can have all the flair and personality they want but if they cant answer a students questions they fall down to the bottom of the list in my opinion.

Sure someone to inspire you is good from 7-9 but after that it should be serious business, if someone doesnt want to learn, the teacher shouldnt have to force themselves to help (taking time from other more willing students), by then the students should actively seek help and a good teacher will be there to help them.

My 10-12 math teacher knew the subject very well, could help any student who needed help and on rare occaisions would make a joke.

[ScottNUMBERS]

I had an accident in school when I was small, this bastard called student A told the whole class and they laughed. My teacher restored order then took me to the toilet and cleaned me up.

[Christmas]

You should wear diapers to class!

[razorrozar7]

I had an accident in school when I was small, this bastard called student A told the whole class and they laughed. My teacher restored order then took me to the toilet and cleaned me up.

When I was in second grade, this er in sixth grade thought it would be funny to tell the bus driver I flipped him off. Despite the fact that I did not yet know what flipping someone off was. When the bus driver said, "Why did you flip him off?" my response was, "But I didn't touch him!"