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...entered the fourth grade, my mother withdrew me from Minnesota’s public school system and set to teaching me on her own. For her, homeschooling was not an attempt to stall our inevitable separation, as it is for some parents. Rather, part of her competence as a teacher lay in her sense of when to leave me to chart the daily course, if not the greater trajectory, of my education on my own. Hers was a deliberate lesson in self-sufficiency: When the substance of my "homework" failed to satisfy, I was at liberty to educate myself...
...snowflakes sandblasted us at hurricane force, we had to grab the railings to keep from being knocked over. "Isn't it great?" shouted Deb Burch, a science teacher in Andover, Mass., who graded papers between lectures and excursions. Then my hood blew off, and, figuring I had about 30 seconds before frostbite set in, I ducked back inside. None of the hearty folks still outside made a move to follow...
...would only be a positive thing to have a coach as a teacher, as long as he was versed in sports psychology,” says sophomore football wide receiver Alex Breaux. “That’s the important thing. I think it’d make them a better coach, and as a player, it would give you more confidence in them, knowing that they know more...
...Averted sectioning reassignments aside, teacher and pupil both agree that the class is more than just a glorified pre-game pep talk. Introductory Psychology or special permission from Baltzell was a prerequisite for the course, but for the small sect of non-concentrators or the athletically-impaired, Baltzell claims that there’s still much to be offered...
Before she was a an adminstrator, Faust was a popular teacher. “The first vivid image I have of her was at a conference,” Hall reminiscences, “This would have been in the mid-80s...I just have an image of her standing at a cocktail party or reception and students gathering around her. A kind of love and respect that was just visible. You could...