Friday Five (8/29/2003)
1. Are you going to school this year?
I am going to LakeLand Community college baby! I am taking a COBOL (programming) class.
2. If yes, where are you going (high school, college, etc.)? If no, when did you graduate?
I graduated from Boston University in December of 2001
3. What are/were your favorite school subjects?
Before college, english was always my favorite. I like to write and I actually enjoyed studying grammar. Although it isn’t always perfect on the site, I don understand a good bit of it. In college my favorite classes were finance classes with the exception of the one that dealt with how markets work. Although it might be important to know, I really never cared how the overnight interest rates are determined for banks, etc.
4. What are/were your least favorite school subjects?
Math in general has always been a thorn in my side with the exception of geometry. Even in college, I really wanted to like statistics, but only about 1/3 of it would ever make logical sense to me. Oh well.
5. Have you ever had a favorite teacher? Why was he/she a favorite?
One of my favorite teachers of all time was my fifth grade teacher, Mr. Wood. He was a stone cold badass. He was oldschool before I knew the meaning of the word. One time a kid got taken out of his class by the kid’s parents because they didn’t agree with his punishment techniques. Mr. Wood never struck a kid, but he would occasionally humiliate one by picking him or her up in the air and carrying them for a bit. He was a huge burly man with a comb-over.
So anyway the parents didn’t like it and they kept coming to complain and eventually started trying to talk to Mr. Wood about it. Mr. Wood warned the principal that he better keep those parents away from him. No threat, just an implied one. He didn’t need one. Nobody ever had trouble believing Mr. Wood. That was one of the best classes ever.
We liked Mr. Wood and we respected him. We didn’t want to do anything to piss him off and in return he treated us with respect. You acted badly you would get humiliated and learn your lesson. I think it is a better dynamic than the one that exists today where many teachers are forced to walk on eggshells due to the legal climate.
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