Word: teacheres
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...Tester is not your average farmer, of course. He's a former public-school music teacher and a successful politician, the president of the Montana state senate. But in April, in the midst of a hot primary race, Tester took five days off from the campaign to seed his 1,800-acre farm in the eastern Montana flatlands. "Look, I do the things real people do. I plow, I seed, I harvest. I do some of my best thinking on my tractor," Tester told me as he campaigned in Whitefish, Mont., last week...
...Teacher of General (and indefinable) Studies, the character Hector draws heavily from Robin Williams in “Dead Poets Society”; an old-fashioned academic armed with the appropriate quotations for any circumstance. He does not lose sleep over the students’ struggle to again admission to Oxbridge, as he considers testing (and education itself) an enemy of true education. As the hatefully pragmatic principal describes, Hector’s contribution to the students’ characters is “unquantifiable, and thus purposeless in education...
...synthesis of Hector’s quotes and Irwin’s awakening of historical passion meet with a third teacher, Mrs. Lindtott, masterfully portrayed by Frances de la Tour. Although she represents the epitome of the classic way, the only woman in the cast successfully develops both the wittiest humor and a profound emotional entanglement with the audience...
...teacher says her principal wouldn't let her get her broken arm treated until the end of the day. A manager writes about a company owner who said he couldn't afford a portable toilet for his staff when the office pipes froze for two weeks--even as his wife was picking out a $20,000 chandelier for their vacation home. Those bad-boss tales are entered in a contest sponsored by Working America, a group affiliated with the AFL-CIO, to find the best stories of workplace woe. Submissions are being accepted at workingamerica.org until July 19, and anyone...
...bilingual teacher in El Paso, Texas, for 20 years, I found that the drive to learn English is strong, and that by the second or third generation, most immigrant Hispanics are English speaking and, better, bilingual...