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From: "Peace Roses" <>
Subject: Re: [ML] time for a memory....teachers
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 08:57:37 -0800
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My daughter taught grades K-5, finally letting the other teacher have the 5th grade. It was a country school, in the middle of nowhere, close to the Columbia River. She said that was the hardest job she's had so far. The kids were OK, it was the parents and school board that made her life a living hell. And, a state land fill had just gone in, and all the apts were taken. She had to buy a travel trailer to live in and it kept having problems over the year she was there. Her friend, Randy, was so good to her and would come and fix whatever had gone wrong. Then, her car quit working, and we had to go get it and tow it back to Redmond to get it fixed. Then, her dad died and they would only give her 2 days off for the funeral. She was never so glad to leave a school in her life. The other teacher went to Guam and taught servicemen's kids for several years.
Emma

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From: Karen Uphoff<mailto:>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 7:15 AM
Subject: Re: [ML] time for a memory....teachers


My favorite teacher was a country school teacher. Her name was Reggie
Mueller. She taught grades 1-8. Some years, she did not have all eight
grades, as most of the time, there were no more than a total of 12 or 15
students.

Reggie not only taught the regular subjects, she taught things that none of
the other country kids had a chance to learn at school. She talked the
P.T.A. into buying an older electric sewing machine and some simple wood
working tools. Any of us that wanted to learn, she taught us how to sew.
We started out with aprons and graduating to blouses. I don't remember
making anything else, but probably did. She taught wood working. We made
book shelves, lawn ornaments, etc. We would cut them out with a coping saw,
hand sand and paint the project and then we would sell them along with the
aprons etc. at a sale that was put on by the P.T.A. One year we all (boys
and girls) embroidered Mexican jackets. They were all entered in the county
fair! We had a piano at the school. Two of the students knew how to play,
so anyone that wanted could take 10 min. lessons each day, if their school
work was done.

She always made learning fun. We had flash cards for reading and
arithmetic. She would use the cards and make up games, involving a couple
of the classes. One year we had an Indian student that was probably in the
7th or 8th grade. For one of the art projects, he taught us how to make a
drum using coffee cans, and rubber from old inner tubes. For Phy Ed., he
taught us some of the dances and what they meant.

She loved reading. Every day after our lunch period, she would read a
chapter out of some book. She would always pick books that both the boys
and girls would enjoy. Some days we would talk her into reading two
chapters, but then we had to really buckle down.

If there were quite a few classes, the older students would listen to the
first and second graders read or help them with math. Again, this could
only be done if our own work was finished.

This woman had no children of her own, so treated each and every student as
her own. When I was in the second or third grade, the mother of one of the
7th or 8th grade girls died. Hazel had to pretty much take over the
housework and cooking for her brothers and father. Mrs. Mueller would help
her plan menus and teach her how to prepare meals.

I have yet to meet someone who has been blessed with having a teacher like
her. I do believe she was one of a kind.

Karen in MN







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Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 10:24 PM
Subject: [ML] time for a memory....teachers


> I need some help with this y'all.....please join in.
>
> I am helping a former teacher where I grew up, he is building a site of
the
> former teachers of my high school. It is such wonderful memories I am
filled
> with as I write about these wonderful, loving people. Sooooo,
> who was your favorite teacher, and why??? Were you the pet of this
teacher?
> Did you work harder in that class just because of the teacher?
> Were you afraid of the teacher? Did that teacher make you want to be a
> teacher or excel in the subject? Comeon here is your chance to spill the
beans....
> I look forward to hearing all the scoop. Share ok??
>
> Hugs Pat
>
> Arden and Pat Houser, Pahrump, NV
> May God continue to bless America, Remember those who fought so bravely to
> give us the freedom we celebrate today. Proud daughter of a W.W.II POW.
All
> email scanned by Norton
>
>
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