Mike Brown
Well, no one seems to care about this site anymore, but if any of ya are still out there, why not say something you fondly remember about high school? Maybe there was a moment with a friend that changed you, a class you took, or a teacher you had that made a big difference in your life...or maybe something you miss about being a teenager at Tecumseh... or how about a teacher or classmate that made a bad first impression and then won you over? Or just some random memory that you feel like sharing...
Here's one little story: The first week of school, in 10th Grade, Ken Hackworth and I noticed that our biology teacher, Mr. Martin, had a habit of saying "and things like that" in his lectures. We started keeping track of how many times he said it. At some point in the second semester, Mr. Martin noticed that we kept smiling and nodding at each other and marking something in our notebooks, and he quickly figured out what our little in-joke was about. Then he'd catch himself sometimes and change what he was saying in order to thwart our tally. Regardless, at the end of the year, we gave him a "certificate" congratulating him on saying "and things like that" something like 750 times. To us, it was just something for laughs, and we figured the award would end up in the trash as soon as we were gone. He did get a big kick out of it when we presented it to him, but then before we could leave, he got a little bit emotional and spoke to us in a much less "teacher-y" tone of voice than usual, more like we were on the same level. With a tear in his eye, he told us that it really meant a lot to him to get something like that, to know that his students really cared. He said he keeps whatever his students give him, and it made him feel good about being a teacher... and things like that.
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