Plinky asks, ‘What was the worst teacher you ever had and why?’
Easy, Mrs. Wilson 1st grade, the woman was a bitch! If anyone stept out of line, and by stepped out of line I mean, sneezed at the wrong time, the whole class stayed after school. The only time the entire class did not have detention was the day Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. She was kind enough to let us go home and watch that on the news.
If you got new shoes she would make you parade around the room and sing the song, ‘New shoes, new shoes, happy goody new shoes’ Whenever anybody got new shoes we would make sure to scuff them up before we got to class.
My brother had her as a teacher, he is three years older than me. My cousin Erwin who is almost 20 yrs older than me also had Mrs. Wilson as his grade one teacher, and he told me she was in her 60’s when he was in her class, and yes she was just as bad.
Second worst teacher was (Rich I know you know who this one is) Mrs. Vogel. She was a french teacher who couldn’t speak french. I figured out how to pass her class I used a purple pen. The only other way was, (if you are a guy) to wear tight purple pants. In my final year of highschool I also found out she liked jade, (the gem stone) I learned this by listening into her conversations with the girls about shopping. So at one point I mentioned jade was my birthstone, (it really is the Opal) but she believed me and when it came time for the final exam I passed and all I had to do was describe what was going on in a picture she showed me. It was a picture of a boy playing with a ball, My description, “le garcon, avec un ball” I passed. It so happened Richard was next in line. While he was waiting outside the classroom she told him not to bother as she wasn’t going to pass him anyway. Richard speaks more french than I do, (well he went to french immersion for a year so I figure he must, although I’ve never heard him speak french).
Mrs Vogel did once tell me to write lines for talking in class. I had to write “I will not talk in class” 500 times and I had to have the lines on her desk the next morning. I didn’t do it, when I went to her class she told me I had to now write 1000 lines. I explained to her that if I didn’t write 500 lines what would make her think I would write 1000 lines? I didn’t hear anything about it after that.
So Mrs Wilson was the worst because I believe she scarred me for life and to this day I can’t have a pair of shoes for an hour without somehow getting a smudge or something on them. Mrs Vogel second in line cause she was just one of those pathetic teachers who was clearly wasting her time waiting for her retirement.
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