Writer's Workshop Wednesday

It's Wednesday agian.....which means what?!?! Writer's Workshop Wednesday that is!! I love wednesday! So, head over to Mama's Losin It and join in on the fun!

Here's what I chose:

Write about a brief, but scary encounter with one of your old professors or teachers.


Oh...let me take you back...hold on to your seat belts! We're off to sophmore year of high school and beleive me it's a bumpy ride so you better hold on! I just moved to a new town, hence going to a new school. I felt like I was truly in a twilight zone, everyone was so different and so, so very strange! Ride along with me if you will to Geometry class....scary thing that is! I will call this teacher...Mrs. Iamtoobusyreadingnewspaper to actually care about teaching! Mrs. Iamtoobusyreadingnewspaper was horrible...she would teach for the first 10-15 minutes of class and then give us our assignment and say, "get to work" while she went and sat down and read the newspaper for the rest of class. She would get irritated if you had questions, she would get down right ugly if you didn't then understand what she was talking about after said questions were answered.

Wait for it, it's coming! Let's not forget that at this time I am a teenager with a big fat attitude.

So, the day is here....I have a question, she answers it, I say that I don't understand and she with her bottle cap glasses and her roaming eye looks me straight in the face, slams her eraser on my desk and says, "What part of this are you not understanding!?!"
Well......I told her, "The whole effin darn thing!" (insert the real words that I used there)
I then told her if it was too darn hard for her to teach it to me then maybe she shouldn't be a effin teacher. (agian insert real words there!)

Needless to say I got shipped off to the principals office, dad got called in about it, and I stood my ground with the principal and told him the whole situation and said I shouldn't have used those few choice words but she also shouldn't be allowed to make her students feel like idiots because they didn't understand something and isn't that what school is for...to be taught not yelled at! To my amazement my dad stood right behind me in agreement and defended me too. I didn't get in any trouble other than a warning to not let it happen agian and they immediatley took me out of the class and put me in another one. Thank God for that! I can say now that I know she is a very nice woman as my husband actually grew up with her son and have seen her since then but I honestly believe that she shouldn't have been teaching unless it was the honors classes. She didn't mind teaching the smart kids, she just didn't like us students who couldn't grasp what she was teaching.

I can also say that to this day, I feel so glad that my dad was there defending me. I deserved to get in trouble for how I said everything but he understood in the sense that you can only take so much of feeling stupid because of someone else. I know there will come a time when something like this will happen with my children and I pray that I can see past maybe the attitude and be able to listen to them and defend them. They too will probably be grounded for how they say things but I will still be there defending them like my dad did for me!


Well, now it's your turn! Whatcha got for us?!? Oh and come back later but I have several blogs on my mind today!