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Memorable Teachers? + Teacher Prank

Dubbington

Dubbington

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What teacher of yours stands out as being influential or memorable in your life? Why?

My 11th grade art teacher was awesome! He was a new teacher first year. It was also all boys catholic highschool. He wouldnt let us in the room without resighting the classroom rules/motto which included properly shaking his hand, eye contact, learning how to tie a tie AND if any were wrong it was push ups.

Best part, there was a semester long prank by the classes best artist....drawing dicks and hiding them in the classroom for the teacher find during class. He went by the name The Avenger. It so fun. Few times the kid drew them and handed them in with a stack of collected test papers. The teacher played along and finally caught them at the end, making them do 500 pushups over a week.

Here's a funny prank a teacher played I came across on FB. Wore the same outfit for 40 years in pictures.

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All boys Catholic School. That explains a bunch Dubbs.

In Junior High School, the Air Force something something band played at our school. People apparently did not show enough respect (I wasn't there, I always refused to take part or attend any assemblies, and they didn't appear to have any problem with that) to the guest band. Well, the PE teacher took great offence to that, andmade the entire school do jumping jacks qnd pushups until people started puking and falling down. As usual, I didn't participate, and wasn't at the assembly, so I didn't have to ro the jumping jacks or push ups. As I recall, he got into quite a lot of shit over that.

Another teacher, Bill Murphy, kept a hawk and 2 brown labs in his camper at all times and was a very popular guy with the students. Real good teacher, he would stop at nothing to help you out if you wanted his help. If you were a fuckoff, he wouldn't fail you or anything like that, but you would get a D grade. All directly proportional to how mucheffort YOU put into it.


Oh Yeah, Jack McCornack, former factory Kawasaki Race Team Mechanic, was my ROP motorcycle mechanics teacher. Rich Oliver was also in that class. Same thing, if you applied yourself, there wasn't anything he wouldn't do for you. Real nice guy too.
 
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Dubbington said:
Here's a funny prank a teacher played I came across on FB. Wore the same outfit for 40 years in pictures.
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I remember reading about that, he accidentally re-wore the same outfit his second year and got made fun of for it, so he decided to just keep wearing it on picture day. :laughing
 
I had a couple real good ones.

My 6th grade teacher was the same as my dad. Really cool teacher, always told jokes and pretty much was the start of me switching from trouble maker to non trouble maker. Did a thing every year where he started a small society in class. People lived in certain areas of class and paid rent, had jobs, were fined, could buy things, etc. A lot of fun.


I had a History teacher as a freshman, hardest class I ever had but also the best. Gave me a better respect for history and encouraged me to learn more about the past. Barely pulled a C out of his class but it was a C I was proud of. Guy could relate anything to anything historically.
 
I have a few very influential teachers

Harry FRank, art teacher at casa grande, pretty much jump started my artistic endevurs

Lynne moquette, human interaction teacher, probably one of my favoprtote teachers
 
Mr Donahue was in the olympics, a broad jumper , junior high history he would some times dress in some period rags that we were studying.

Wrote my college paper on him, surprisingly I didn't have to take english.
 
Glen Bass, Fire Science Instructor at Chabot.

Convinced me I should go after a job with the Dept of Forestry working on a Helitack fire crew.
 
Mr. Okusako. 4th grade at WDE in Davis. Best guy ever. Not afraid to punish you and not afraid to have fun. Wherever he is, I hope life had been really good to him.
 
Keith Radford.
I hated school from around 3rd grade on. Rote memorization just isn't my thing. Many years later I finally took a couple JC classes, (other than motorcycle maintenance) and found Mr. Radford. His enthusiasm for the life sciences got me back into school. And he had a motorcycle. Thanks Keith! :thumbup
 
Had an instructor at Wyotech who found it funny to line all the toolboxes up together, hook one up to a battery and watch as people tried to pull their box off the line.


Then the kid with a pacemaker almost died.... :facepalm


I still laughed, I know, I'm a dick.
 
6th grade, Mr. Sutter. Introduced me to the world of comic books and LOTR. Best year of school to date.
 
Memorable teachers:

Mr. Hopper - HMB High. Frequently lit things on fire and blew stuff up to the point it rocked buildings and rattled windows on the opposite side of campus. Eccentric like Bill Nye. Full of fun anecdotes about chemistry (he was one of the main chem/physics teachers). Showed us how to make a 20' tall fireball with a supersoaker, coffee can, hot plate, and candle wax.
 
Ms. Seastrand.

Substitute English teacher in high school for like a day. I don't even remember her first name, nor was she a very good teacher, and in fact didn't even look old enough to teach.

But goddamn.

Short-crop blonde hair, and those really tight jeans. That's all I remember.
 
My public school teacher in 4th and 5th grade was a man of excellent vision and energy. He taught me very well that intellectualism works really well with fitness if you want to be an advanced form of life (previously I was mainly a library kid) and always had funny stories about chasing chicks from his Summer Job as a Lifeguard. Thinking back to his talking about chicks on the beach the way he did was super G rated and tame, but back when we were in 4th Grade this was SERIOUS BRO TALK! :laughing It made the guys feel more mature and cool. Dude had really great enthusiasm for learning absoloutly everything and always encouraging questioning and curiosity. I was really lucky he switched years and I got him 2 in a row.
 
You folks are lucky. My experience was lackluster teachers at best in a violent atmosphere.

First positive experience was as an adult in Community College.
 
My 9th grade Ag teacher used to send us out to his car to get books, papers and things. We would almost always, no matter who got sent out on the errand, smoke a "doobie" in his car and then reposition his car. It started just by switching orientation the progressed to moving it about the faculty lot. He was a stone cold drunk and never mentioned it until we moved it to the lot across the street.
Great teacher! Mr. Lenhart

My 12th grade teacher was a farmer turning teacher. He was a student teacher teaching his own class alone at a vocational school with his professor coming down every month to observe. It was called Agricultural Resources, formerly Park Maintenance, which was a senior only program that was a repository for all for all the stoners in the school who couldn't complete other programs. The stoniest of stoners were my classmates. I was in it because it was the only one year program.

He was focused so hard on our learning that he turned a blind eye to getting high in the welding booths, half of us on 'Luudes at any given time and he put up with our antics with never a complaint as long as we did our work and ticked boxes on our progress chart.
The only time I saw him upset was when a girl lost two fingers on the joiner. Also when they did a sweep of our lockers and 30% of the class got expelled. (I was the only one who was allowed to return after two weeks suspension.)
This crew was a mess. Classmate having weekly Grand Mal seizures. Another shot himself in the gut while cleaning a gun (at home.)
Mr. Middleton joked about the latter, as the current project was welding a box that would hold water, he suggested we weld a casket just in case Art didn't pull through.
(Farmer humor)

By far the greatest, most dedicated teacher I have ever seen.
I still visit him when I go to Ohio.
I found out he had a nervous breakdown after that first year of teaching. He continued to mentor some of the guys after they graduated.
 
kevin 714 said:
I have a few very influential teachers

Harry FRank, art teacher at casa grande, pretty much jump started my artistic endevurs

Lynne moquette, human interaction teacher, probably one of my favoprtote teachers
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Your English teacher regrets not killing you. :twofinger
 
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