Posted on 01/30/2015 7:51:33 AM PST by Doogle
“Heatherthatch”... - snort -
Bananas was a great movie like most early Woody Allen. Sleeper is another.
She was gorgeous!
Every day she wore beautiful clothes to school, very fashionable but also very tasteful and not at all ostentatious.
She was extremely strict--no nonsense.
The students adored her. And respected her utterly, to the extent that they would take issue with even the slightest criticism of her. (It was a large school--1900 students in the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades.)
But she was reserved almost to the point of unfriendliness. She never made small-talk in class. Hardly ever even smiled.
She was there to teach geometry, and she did it very well.
I made straight A+ in her class and loved it.
I loved geometry because of her--because she was such an excellent teacher--and because she held herself and everyone else to such high standards.
Her high standards were contagious. She taught them to her students by her example and perhaps without even realizing it.
I wish I knew where she was and how to contact her because I would like to tell her that she's one of the best teachers I ever had, and, after high school, I went through more than 15 years of college level education.
But I never had a better teacher or one whom I respected more.
Times have certainly changed.
Rules for Teachers in the Late 1800s
1. Teachers each day will fill lamps and clean chimneys.
2. Each teacher will bring a bucket of water and a scuttle of coal for the day’s session.
3. Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to the individual taste of the pupils.
4. Men teachers may take one evening each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go to church regularly
5. After ten hours in school, the teachers may spend the remaining time reading the Bible or other good books.
6. Women teachers who marry or engage in unseemly conduct will be dismissed.
7. Every teacher should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years so that he will not become a burden on society
8. Any teacher who smokes, uses liquor in any form, frequents pool or public halls, or gets shaved in a barbershop will give good reason to suspect his worth, intention, integrity and honesty
9. The teacher who performs his labor faithfully and without fault for five years will be given an increase of twenty-five cents per week in his pay, providing the Board of Education approves.
What the heck is wrong with flip flops? And just where is the line between flip flops and sandals?
What's up with that part???
Bill Clinton is from Arkansas.
I suspect Bubba went Commando a time or two.
Yep, after all We are talking about Arkansas here.
We had a Vice Principal at my daughter’s elementary school in 1999, who wore form-fitting mini-skirts, 4’ stilettos, tight-cleavage revealing tops, and enough makeup to award a Mary-Kay representative with a new pink Cadillac, annually!
Parents complained, teachers complained, students complained, and the school district did nothing! This was AFTER they implemented uniforms for the students!
When I was in school, I can’t remember a male teacher (including the coaches who also taught other subjects) wearing anything other than a dress shirt, slacks, and a tie to the classroom; not sweats, not tennis shoes, but dressy clothing only. Most of my female teachers wore dresses (nothing revealing), and occasionally a pantsuit. When our coaches left the field house to visit the main office or any classroom, they would switch into dress clothes.
Today’s teachers wear shorts, sweats, mini-skirts, blue jeans, and t-shirts, every single day! It is sad! If you aren’t going to be a professional, then why do the profession?!?
*snickerin here*...remembering the cat jumping up
“In case you decide to poop on the gym floor.”
no spandex is the deal breaker
Perfect.
LSD in the water supply?
In those days barbershops were informal mens’ clubs (quartet singing in four-part harmony?) & served as a getaway from the wives & children. And who knows what men will talk about when the womenfolk are not about? They might even have been selling hootch there on the side. Why, barbershops were only one step off the bottom rung of respectability from saloons & pool halls!
Any man worth his salt could strop a razor & shave himself. Occasionally a professional shave, but habitually?
Of course, in those days if one completed school through the eighth grade, one was far better educated than today’s postgraduate students.
I agree with you completely. The teachers wore the same things when I was in school, except that none word pants suits.
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