Off my Educ thread: Your favorite/worst teacher

Mrs Pollard - 2nd year English.

She tried to teach us some refinement - rural school where a lot of us came to school barefooted. She was like a fairy godmother. But strict on discipline and intolerant of any kind of foolishness. I've thought of her fondly at least once a week for the last five decades. Never had a bad interaction with her.

Ms ????? = typing

First year teacher who was totally ineffective and unprepared. It was chaos all day every day.

So many candidates. I had a first grade teacher who tried to convert a left handed, colorblind kid to being right handed, and tried to "teach" him to see colors. She also thought a girl who fell down and was crying was faking it. The child came to school the next day in a cast for her broken arm. Some others who had a mean streak, and some who were merely incompetent, but I guess she was the worst.

I didn't have any great teachers. Some were pretty decent, but none were really great. By the time I was in HS, I had tuned them all out, which hurt me when I got to college and had to learn how to actually pay attention again.