Free Verse
Teacher’s Effect
Last week
we walked about
we talked and
I took a lot of pictures,
you asked why
I concentrated,
suddenly
on this common wiry fence…
Ah…t’was
just a memory flashback.
Back in 68, my dear,
I was just a kid then…
and I had a lovely friend
a true artist through and through,
he painted a beautiful sunset
then he brought it to
Mrs. Chatterley’s class.
She felt it not good enough
“somehow it’s just not quite finished!”
so she walked about it
in her artistic way
and said it needed a fence.
Not just any fence would do for her
she wanted chicken wire!
So, my friend he painted the chicken wire
and thus destroyed his work.
Ah…that teacher
she was a bane to us…
she thought
she was something special,
an artist
creator of artists
do you know the type?
Inflated ego
arrogant and brusque…
and chicken wire
around her brain.
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Wowza. I love that. Chicken wire around her brain. 85% dark Canadian chocolate for you with a dollop of maple syrup! You better eat it before the beaver that snuck in on the virtual flight does. Which means you also have a virtual pet beaver.
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Ooooo…I’m late reading this…I’ll probably find a virtual beaver building dams now!!!
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I hated teachers like that. They wanted it their way, so a student’s creative vision was buried. I’m glad I rarely had teachers like that. 95% of them were very supportive of my creative ideas. Especially the history teachers for some reason.
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Ditto here…she was a bit of a twit. I did have an American history teacher though that was a newbie…his name was Udder, guess he was worried about not having enough authority…he only taught the one year and then he went to work for IBM…unfortunately he flunked our whole class, save one…ruined my straight A report card…such is life.
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I had a math teacher like that. 85% of her students failed the state exam and those that passed were by the skin of their teeth.
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The Italians say in cases like this: not all the donuts come out with a hole…they’ve got some pretty crazy sayings…
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I recognize some such from my childhood..yes, but.I hope not many of us are like that anymore. I think when I was a child the teacher felt “the mission of teaching the right things” more than nowadays. Today it is the human being, the student himself/herself who is important!
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