Do you remember your favorite teacher? Why was he/she your favorite? My favorite was Mrs. Yankees.

[debm55]

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She was my sixth grade teacher when teachers taught all subjects. Last time I saw her was at my HS graduation partyFor . She knew alot about all subjects, was loving yet firm. My first teaching job in the area, I replaced her when she retired. Same classroom,same desk. Who was your favorite? And a big thank you to all the teachers who don't just teach but are mentors, nurses, counselors, party planers, and janitors in their own room, tech support for their students. I could never be a teacher today. It was hard for me back in the day and it is even harder today.

[gibraltar72]

1. fifth grade teacher missus Lint.

She recognized I was bored reading at 5th grade level. Brought me books she had read in College. Just a great lady her husband was my band teacher also.

[Frasier Balzov]

2. Mrs. Harrington, 6th grade, Barnard School, Chicago.

A wiz at parts of speech and diagramming sentences.

Cultivated a very law-and-order reputation in the classroom.

I never had a greater fear and appreciation of any other teacher.

[2naSalit]

14. I had a grammar...

Teacher in seventh grade who was named Mrs. Harrington! In New Hampshire. She was young and nice and kind of hip... it was the mid 60s at the time. I really liked her. She's probably the reason I was able to get into and make it through college as a reformed HS dropout! I had reading and comprehension down and that was what made it for me.

But I had a few favorite teachers so I'm trying to decide which one to tell about.

[livetohike]

3. Mrs. Rohrbacher my fourth grade teacher. She made learning so much

fun. She was always smiling and genuine. She is the reason I became a teacher. While in college, I went to her classroom to do an all day observation for one of my courses. My professor wrote that it seems I observed a great teacher. She was 🙂. Mrs. Rohrbacher passed away three years ago. Someone ran her over in a WalMart parking lot 😥.

[blm]

4. Geez

So many personal questions.

Sometimes it can seem like Facebook fishing posts profiling for password and security questions.

I’m sure you don’t mean to be fishing, but, it’s foolish for DUers to answer so many of these type questions on a public page.

[GPV]

5. Or we can celebrate the great teachers out there. I hope

I'm someone's story someday.

[blm]

7. I get that part, GPV.

But, there are lurkers accessing these pages with less than innocent intent, and, especially dangerous when combined with scores of other personal facts learned here.


https://www.helpmepcs.com/blog/why-its-dangerous-to-answer-fun-questions-on-social-media

Facebook has these questions that are supposed to be fun for everyone to get to know each other. One thing that can lead to it though is getting information within the answers to be able to answer security questions. Answering about your first dog, where you were born, or anything with personal information will lead to figuring out security questions for bank accounts, credit card information, and even billing information! They seem to be fun when you first answer them, but when the wrong person gets their hands on that kind of information, it can lead to more severe accounts that can be compromised and information being stolen.

[2naSalit]

15. Ever since...

That russian info collection quiz, I don't entertain myself with those anymore. That crashed one of my laptops when I could not afford to replace it.

[debm55]

6. I don't know what fishing is. I like to post things that are fun and share with my fellow posters

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things that we have all shared. I thought that was the theme of the Lounge. I am not on facebook. They have a right to answer or not. By the way BLM, I taught for 40 some years and still have students come up to me and hug me. The main area of DU is politics. I am a people person. The only fishing I do is for trout. And how unroll your TP, and dog tricks don't belong here? I'm sorry, don't understand. I have asked about chocolates, Easter clothing, bacon, soft drinks. Mayo vs Miracle Whip. cooking ribs. first dates. first duds. I have never seen you post in the Lounge before. I will try to cut back. But people aren't looking for politcs here, I'm not. When I am, I go to the main forum.Thank you for your post of what a fisher does. I was unaware. Also, I don;t go to a site for questions. I used them as journal starters. and my own experiences--do you wear socks with sandals?

[questionseverything]

12. Please don't stop, even though I don't answer often, I enjoy your ops

I’m sure blm is just trying to remind us all to be careful, unfortunately there are bad characters out there

I had so many great teachers, I can’t pick just one but I really enjoyed thinking of them all when you asked

[Niagara]

18. Our beloved Floyd R. Turbo use to get schmutz on for asking questions in the lounge.

Other loungers can determine if they want to participate or not.



I have serious doubts that some creeping cave freeper is actually capable of scoring an Amazon email address and password on DU. Just my opinion.

[debm55]

10. Most, if not all of the questions, I have asked my students as a guide for writing in their journals

They are journal starters. Some are based on my own experience. Asking people what was the luckiest day of their life, brought me e'mail from many folks thanking me for posting that.

[blm]

11. debm, I get that.

I certainly appreciate the fun in it.

That doesn’t change the fact that this is a public page on the internet and it comes with reasonable cautions.

[debm55]

13. blm, what should I do? People enjoy them, I enjoy them and I am following the terms of TOS. I am not

stalking or ridiculing others the way I was last week. I understand and I will slow it down. There are various posts here that are like mine. May I ask, why you singled mine out? I have never hurt anyone by my words, as I was.

[blm]

17. Have fun AND be mindful.

That’s the best I can say.

[debm55]

16. I will be careful.

[mike_c]

8. Julie Maiola, hands down.

Art teacher in high school, I spent time in her classroom every day for several years. I worked for her brother-in-law for awhile too. Good gawd, the last time I saw her was fifty years ago. She tried hard to keep me in school and my early adulthood would likely have been way easier if I'd listened.

[rsdsharp]

9. I'm gonna go with Mrs. Sogard. Genevieve B. Sogard.

She was my fourth grade teacher. She had been my older brother and sister’s fourth grade teacher. The stories they told scared the hell out of me. She had two paddles on the wall she called her boards of education, and she didn’t hesitate to use them.

She was nearing retirement, and would teach only one more year after my class. She came in as a substitute in sixth grade, and we gave her a standing ovation. She was an excellent teacher; tough, but fair, and she cared about all of her students. I found my sibling’s stories exaggerated (but not wholly unfounded).

She was from the generation of women who realistically had two choices for a professional career — teaching or nursing. That was unbelievable unfair, but it resulted in many of the best and brightest women finding themselves in a grade school classroom. I was lucky to have her as a teacher.

[thatcrowwoman]

19. My sixth grade teacher, too.

Mrs. Eisenhower was smart and kind and generous and encouraging. She taught us every subject, including PE where we worked on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness program (hello chin-ups), health and safety, good citizenship and civics, music, art, needlepoint, soap carving (with real pocketknives),folk and square dancing, and so many individual, group, and whole class activities. I remember I did a science report about the first human heart transplant. I helped out in the school library. I was in 6th grade, and I dreamed of becoming an astronaut.

Mrs. Eisenhower told my mom that I would be a teacher someday. I laughed, but turns out she wasn’t wrong. She’s probably at least partly responsible for the 15~20 years I spent teaching science and history to 6th graders, followed by ~20 years as a librarian in middle and then high schools. L’dor vador. From generation to generation.

Mrs. Eisenhower, her memory is for a blessing.
Thank you, deb, for bringing so many good memories to mind.
🕊thatcrowwoman

[debm55]

20. Thatcrowwoman, thank you. I think I did get a little carried away today. Oh well.

[Mad_Dem_X]

21. Mrs. Tabb - 6th Grade

She could be strict at times, but she also encouraged our creativity, which I loved. A lot of kids in my class didn't like her, but I thought she was an excellent teacher.