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Originally Posted by Psycho Dad
Me too. But Ms. Z never burned anything to my knowledge. Although I could smell cigarette smoke on her from time to time and I suspect she may have burned a doobie now and then.
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That is one ingredient in making a good teacher, but don't you think part of why she was a good teacher had a lot to do with her ability to teach outside of the box?
To me this is a case of a teacher being too good for a lot of his students. Mr. Holden was trying to reach his students on a viceral level. Raw social studies, if you will. That's damn rare. Most of my social studies teachers were quite boring. Instead of trying to learn (you know, that thing you do in school), the student tattled to their parents, who are even bigger ponces. The parents, thinking that they are always right and the devil liberals are trying to possess their children, complain to the school about something that they don't understand.
Sometimes I want to just stop. It's tempting to just let the conservatives win just so they can see what it's like to not have freedom anymore. Just so they can see what they're fighting for. Then I can get burned in a prison fire, don a Guy Fawks mask, and vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the voilently vicous and voracious violation of volition.