Former NFL QB Jon Kitna finds ‘gold mine’ at a school where other teachers only saw problems

Yahoo ^ | 12/19/12 | Les Carpenter

[Some Fat Guy in L.A.]

Sounds like a God thing to me.

[driftless2]

I’m not “hijacking” the thread. I’m just observing that the person who interviewed Kitna wrote about how hard it is to teach kids who are hungry. It might be true, but how many kids who are not learning are not learning because they’re hungry? I’ll bet very few. But the writer felt warranted to add the hunger angle. That’s my point mister thread dictator.

[Quick Shot]

This reminds me of a teacher I had in the mid 70’s. English teacher and took her Public Speaking class. What a wonderful person. She did not take bull from any one and brought all students up in a positive way. She took the shy and made them confident and we had fun. Her students ended up the leaders in society.

She has a son who then had just graduated as starting QB at U of Minnesota, got drafted as a wide receiver at Pittsburgh. You may have heard of him, Tony Dungy. Mrs Dungy was a wonderful person.