Comments:

Jim - 2007-09-06 07:17:08
You apparently had better teachers in junior high school than I did (and more useful shop classes as well) but just as happened to you, that is when my eyesight got bad enough to require glasses.
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Stephanie - 2007-09-06 07:37:22
I really enjoyed reading this entry, Doug. But I can't shake the mental image of your pants flying on the flagpole!
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Kelli - 2007-09-06 08:37:55
I'm the same with English grammar and such. Participle? Diagraming sentences? Never really got the hang of all that... but I sure do love to write. :) We *must* be related...
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Sarah - 2007-09-06 08:43:06
I can remember the experience of not being able to read what was written on the blackboard, as well. And not saying anything about it to anybody. And failing tests because I couldn't read the instrutions written there. What a miracle it was when I finally got glasses in high school. Years later, as a teacher myself, I was always on the lookout for the possibility of poor eyesight/poor hearing in my students as a reason for their difficulties.
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ava - 2007-09-06 08:47:56
Winderful memories, Doug I remember the smell of the janitor's mop too, and the fun if banging blackboard erasers on the back steps when chosen to do it. I had a hard time with math, called arithmitic way back then, but how I loved to read and write. If we had only known then what we know now, that time was the best of our lives. Ava
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Betty Lou - 2007-09-06 12:22:23
I was lucky, I guess. I couldn't see the blackboard, and my best friend couldn't hear the teacher, so we sat together and she read to me what was written, and I wrote to her what was said. We got through school pretty good together.
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l'empress - 2007-09-06 16:02:27
Shop classes -- closed to the girls. I imagine I would have done better there than in home ec. But English grammar? That's my thing. I learned it well enough to test out of required English in college. In business school, I met English majors who couldn't tell a noun from a verb. And in any job where I've worked with young people, I have found myself teaching grammar.
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