I despised my eighth grade teacher. He was a power-tripping ego-maniac who kept a box of kleenex in the bottom drawer of his desk for one-on-one conversations with students during recesses that always made the children cry.
Several times a year, while we were out of the classroom, he would snoop through the desks of his students and if he found the contents to be too poorly organized he would dump them out, toss the desk on its side, and wait for the re-entrance of the children and the inevitable humilition of the dumpee(s). One time, mid-dump, he stumbled across a hand-drawn comic strip etched by the class clown, making visual fun of the grumpy teacher. The poor artist was banished permanently from the classroom and spent the remaining months of the school year in the principal’s office.
Part of me really wants to include the name of this terrible beast of a teacher in the hopes that the next time he googles himself (what, as if you don’t do it) he finds my long-harboured disdain.
But I’m a bigger person than that.
In theory.
MR. HOLLOWAY. MR. HOLLOWAY. MR. HOLLOWAY.
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Way to get ’em, Amanda!
I promise NEVER to do that or any other embarassing thing to my students!
Oh boy…Amanda!He sure left an impression with you!Let’s hope you don’t get too familiar with a defamation and libel suit against you.(does that ever happen with blog material?)My most hurtful memory of a cruel teacher was when everyone in class had to have their height and weight registered,and the teacher would announce it out loud to the entire class.As the fat kid in class,this was soo humiliating and demeaning.This took place up th the age of 10 or 11,I think.What was the purpose of that,I ask you?Just an opportunity to have the power to wreck not only a child’s day,but a lifetime.I won’t out them here,because they are all likely dead by now,but I was bitter about that for a long time.It has taken me a long time to realize that some people are just too ignorant to give any significance to,and that everyone will have to give an account of all of their words and actions to the Great Judge,and that it’s His job to take care of it!
Thought you might find it interesting that your grade 8 teacher is now president of the local Public Teacher’s Association. I just about peed my pants laughing so hard at your blog this morning.
Remember when I had a closed box of Tart n Tiny’s on the playground at recess and he found me with them? So he proceeded to open the box, dump them out in the snow, and step on them!!!!!! Who does that????!!!!!!!! He was just a mean, creepy old man who had no facial expression!!!!!!
I had a couple of teachers like that too. Whenever I stood up to them on behalf of the other kids (which I always did), I inevitably got sent to the principal’s office. And then my parents were called in. And they, of course, defended me against the awful teachers. I win!
Hahahahahah!!! Waaaaay to go.
so…what if you happened to mention his first name somewhere?
I think we all have that ONE teacher. Mine was in grade 8, too. Except it was a woman. AND she’s no longer a teacher. Oh, and my first kindergarten got fired for being too mean (she still believed in ruler hand smacking…oh, yeah…True story).
Wow. I wonder how he thought he was helping his students become well rounded individuals by humiliating them like that. Because we all know a clean desk means you’ll grow up to be smart. If that was the case, I’m surprised I ever learned to tie my own shoes I was such a messy kid.
You’re hilarious. What a sucky teacher. Were you the one who drew the comic strip?
You could also mention him on ratemyprof.com. That’s where Faunty and I evaluate our university profs, but you can rate high school teachers and probably elementary teachers too.
Although I was usually one of the class clowns, it was not I who drew the condemned cartoon. :)
Yeah I am pretty sure the kid who drew that cartoon is now a drug dealer. Or at least that’s what he was when I last saw him. And it’s all the fault of Mr. Holloway!!!!!
Whoa…kinds aounds like a reform school teacher? ;)
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