Comments on: What teachers make http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402 We of course all understand it, being intellectuals. Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 By: Fierce http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-623 Wed, 18 Jun 2003 00:00:50 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-623 That rocks.

]]> By: Jessica http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-622 Sat, 14 Jun 2003 22:31:05 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-622 The local schools have hot (short) pink sheets of paper in the windows of teachers that are being laid off this summer. Almost every window has one, it seems. The Teacher of the Year in San Jose? Getting laid off. But hey, maybe we will eventually get federal assistance for the big electricity sales fraud of last year and then they’ll all get hired back.
In, say, the next presidential administration. Sigh.

]]> By: mig http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-621 Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:56:57 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-621 yeah, i was thinking of you when i reposted that, mary. teachers like you are my heroes.

]]> By: mary http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-620 Sat, 14 Jun 2003 05:04:34 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-620 I’d love to be able to look into the future and find out what my third-graders will be saying about me when they think about their teachers. I hope it’ll be something along the lines of kicking their asses every day in order to teach them more than they ever expected to learn.

]]> By: Mig http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-619 Fri, 13 Jun 2003 10:56:15 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-619 Yeah, Brian, I’ve had all kinds of teachers too. But the good ones did make a difference.

]]> By: Adam http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-618 Fri, 13 Jun 2003 02:04:51 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-618 Beautiful stuff. Inspired me to write my own ode to teachers:

http://www.lucky8ball.com/wordsmeanthings/index.cfm?postID=1651

]]> By: steve http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-617 Fri, 13 Jun 2003 01:53:21 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-617 Taylor Mali found at the http://www.defpoetryjam.com/ site

]]> By: Brian http://www.metamorphosism.com/?p=402&cpage=1#comment-616 Thu, 12 Jun 2003 20:36:22 +0000 http://vermeer.hmdnsgroup.com/~metamorp/?p=402#comment-616 I wish more teachers were like that.

But not like the gym teacher I had in junior high who stood by and laughed while some punk beat on me in the middle of a crowded corridor because I was a little defenseless nerd. He didn’t make much difference.

Or the elementary school teacher I had who hadn’t prepared a new lesson plan in twenty years and was still giving out mimeographed maps of pre-WWII Europe for geography lessons in 1972.

Or the modern history teacher I had in high school who didn’t know that Mao Tse-tung had been dead for three years.

I don’t blame the writer for responding defensively, and I also had some wonderful teachers, but both sides of that particular spectrum are pretty well represented, I think.

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