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Any school teachers here?

1BigGuy1BigGuy Member Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭
edited March 2014 in General Discussion
I don't think I'm the only one.
Just wondering how many there are here.
I know Doc teaches some college classes. . .
And Nunn gets to occasionally spend some time doing good work at schools.
Anyone else?
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  • calrugerfancalrugerfan Member Posts: 18,209 ✭
    edited November -1
    My wife is a school teacher as is select-fire's wife. I believe that retroxler58's wife does or did teach as well, possible college level.
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  • dcon12dcon12 Member Posts: 32,040 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My first ex-wife was a school teacher. Don
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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,309 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My wifes got 34 yrs experience,(6 yr. degree, early childhood), this will be her last year [;)] NOTE: I put her through school [^], best money I ever spent [:D]

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • rossowmnrossowmn Member Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've been teaching at a state university for a few weeks short of 30 years. (I always like to follow that confession with the comment that I am a conservative island floating in a sea of liberals.[:D]) I was in private industry for 15 years before switching to teaching.
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by calrugerfan
    My wife is a school teacher as is select-fire's wife. I believe that retroxler58's wife does or did teach as well, possible college level.
    Yep... College prof - ENGLISH for the last 15 years.
    Along with high school English and elementary school.

    She owned her own daycare for near on ten years before we went back to school...
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  • SawzSawz Member Posts: 6,049
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by austin20
    My wife has been teaching middle school for nearly twenty two years.

    I was installing a stair railing one time in a home with a retired couple.

    I guess they had a phone number close to the local hospital number, like 1 number off. The phone rang and the woman answered and started yelling and telling the person to watch what numbers he dials then slammed the phone down. She wandered off to who knows where. The husband was standing by me and must have seen my face and reaction. He said you cant blame her, we get wrong number calls all the time because we are just one number off the hospital, and she taught Jr high school for 30 years. I gave her a pass after that, 30 years of teaching bratty early teens would have made me reach through the phone and strangle the wrong number dude
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    i have taken a few members to school if that counts [:D]
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    my son is a vo-ed teacher since 2005, his rooms are filled with wood gun cabinets, deer plaques and other hunting related items the kids build in class out of wood and metal.
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  • JorgeJorge Member Posts: 10,656 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I now teach biology, verbal reasoning, and test taking skills. In a not so distant past, also math, organic chemistry, physics, general chemistry, and clinical skills.
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    My third ex-wife is a school teacher. The good thing about teachers? They make you do it over and over, until you get it right!
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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,527 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My favorite joke to tell to teachers.. mind you a couple or more..
    How do you pronounce the capital of Kentucky?.. is it Louis ville, or Louisville? ... after a couple of tries from them... You pronounce it
    Frankfort.
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  • cce1302cce1302 Member Posts: 9,555 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    my wife used to teach, but is now an administrator for a company that provides education services.


    I just try to talk truants into going back to school, and trouble makers into quitting trouble making at school.
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  • phipdeerphipdeer Member Posts: 101 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    My Wife spent 31 years in 1st grade and retired last year. She tells me you can retire but never stop being a Teacher.
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  • rossowmnrossowmn Member Posts: 1,959 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    In my earlier reply, I didn't mention that my wife is also a teacher. She spent eight years teaching elementary school, then switched to more-profitable nursing, but is now, in her early 60s, nursing four-tenths time and teaching nursing half time at the university. That's her plan until retirement.
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  • Dreadnought1953Dreadnought1953 Member Posts: 183 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Big Guy-
    Have taught history (college) for 25+ years, speech for over 10.
    Fortunate that our small history department is made up of "constitutionalist."
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  • reload999reload999 Member Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by phipdeer
    My Wife spent 31 years in 1st grade and retired last year...
    she gave up on ever making it to second grade, huh?[;)]
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  • ltcdotyltcdoty Member Posts: 4,184 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My better half just retired after forty years of teaching Kindergarten through Second grade. I asked her the other day if she missed it...she said not the going to work everyday and the administrators...but she really missed watching the little minds learn and grow.
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  • zinkzink Member Posts: 6,456 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Both of my parents were teachers. Dad was a middle school teacher along with football, basketball and track coach. Mom was a high school girls gym teacher. I am very proud of them![^]

    Bad part is, I couldn't get away with anything![:(!]
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  • calrugerfancalrugerfan Member Posts: 18,209 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by reload999
    quote:Originally posted by phipdeer
    My Wife spent 31 years in 1st grade and retired last year...
    she gave up on ever making it to second grade, huh?[;)]


    You beat me to it.
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  • 1BigGuy1BigGuy Member Posts: 4,033 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, some cool comments posted here.
    I even appreciated the jokes!
    But I just gotta stand up for Mrs. phipdeer, the 31 year veteran of 1st grade. Because I am approaching the end of my 31st year of teaching music K-6 and band 5-12.
    And I can also relate to the thoughts of Mrs. ltcdoty. I hope to someday follow in her footsteps into retirement.
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  • calrugerfancalrugerfan Member Posts: 18,209 ✭
    edited November -1
    My wife said that teaching would be more enjoyable if not for the 3 Ps. Parents, Principals, and Paperwork.
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  • FWAdditFWAddit Member Posts: 918 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I retired after teaching literature, linguistics, and composition for 35 years at one university. Before that I had taught 2 years at a different university while finishing up my degree.

    I miss instigating and managing the student discussions, reading the best of their essays, and shooting the bull with colleagues. However, the relief from grading tests and most essays, sitting through long boring meetings, filling out reams of paperwork, and keeping up with changing policies in the university bureaucracy--all that more than compensates for the things I miss.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back in school at 58.
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  • Mk 19Mk 19 Member Posts: 8,170
    edited November -1
    My wife is director of a Christian pre-school and teaches a pre-K class, she has been in that business for 23 years
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,565 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by nunn
    My third ex-wife is a school teacher. The good thing about teachers? They make you do it over and over, until you get it right!


    I think you failed until you married Dawnie[;)]
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  • pulsarncpulsarnc Member Posts: 6,559 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Was not a school teacher as such but before I retired I was teaching staff development courses at the state hospital I worked in full time
    cry Havoc and let slip  the dogs of war..... 
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  • rogue_robrogue_rob Member Posts: 7,033 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    retired after 21 years from the Army, used the GI Bill to get my teaching license.

    I teach middle school math now and coach the basketball team.

    We won our conference for the first time in over 25 years[:D]
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  • fideaufideau Member Posts: 11,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wife and daughter. My wife retires this year. The biggest obstacle for good teachers are the administrators, principals and school boards. Some real dumbazzes that hinder education. It's a shame how bad our schools have become.
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  • monticellotdmmonticellotdm Member Posts: 256 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Use to teach Microbiology, A&P and Cardiac and Respiratory Pathopysiology at FAMU... Oy vey
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  • footlongfootlong Member Posts: 8,009
    edited November -1
    l spent my last 8 yrs with the US ARMY instructing new recruits at the Signal School.... Loved it too...l did a few unorthodox things to get them to learn..l remember one young recruit who kept falling asleep in class..Told him one day l would call his Mama if it happened again.. He said,'' Call her''.. And l did..Following Monday he reported to classs he said,''You called my Mama''....Sure did.. Never had a problem with him sleepig again...Also used to get post cards from former students after they deployed...Chief lnstructor would always grab them and pu them on the bulletin board behind HIS desk..10 yrs after retiring in '93' l went to lraq for REAL money l actually ran into one of my former students..Makes you feel when you see them excel [^]
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  • nunnnunn Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 36,085 ******
    edited November -1
    I am not a "school" teacher, but I am a licensed instructor, licensed by TCOLE. That means I can teach law enforcement classes in or out of an academy setting. That license is permanent.

    I had a license, long expired, to teach the Texas Concealed Handgun License course.
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  • jonkjonk Member Posts: 10,121
    edited November -1
    Mainly I am the director of International Programs at a small college outside of Cleveland, but I also teach a few German classes on the side.
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  • Queen of SwordsQueen of Swords Member Posts: 14,355
    edited November -1
    I finally got my certs at 47, I taught GED for a year at a CTE center, then caught wind of a job much closer to home in UPK. I could not reconcile the $20 in gas I was spending everyday for the commute to the CTE.

    Love my job! Those little kiddos make me smile everyday.
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  • TRAP55TRAP55 Member Posts: 8,292 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by calrugerfan
    My wife said that teaching would be more enjoyable if not for the 3 Ps. Parents, Principals, and Paperwork.

    My wife teaches autistic and emotionally disturbed K-5 kids, with the goal to mainstream them. Her biggest complaint is the parents, that are half the cause of the kid's problems.
    Paperwork? She has a semi permanent desk in the family room where she spends 3-4 hrs everyday "after" work, trying to catch up. The violent ones create double that paperwork. 5yr olds with problems and off their meds can be stronger than their size. She has come home with bruises, a blackeye, split lip, and pierced ear rings ripped out.
    The worse times are when she comes home in tears, because the "system" fails a kid that could be saved. The best times are when one gets mainstreamed, and does well.
    I admire her for what she does every day, she's tougher than I am. After listening to her work day, mine seems pretty damned good.[:)]
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