Do You Really Know Your Teachers?

 I bet you don’t know what your teachers are really like.  Or what they were like when they were our age.  So this article will let you know more about them.

Mrs. Distefano, the seventh grade counselor at SJHS, said,  “I attended a middle school for sixth through eighth grade.  In six grade, one of our teachers always asked students to bring him a piece of their birthday cake, so he had cake all the time.  I shared my birthday cake with him all the way through high school!  In seventh grade, I had a slumber party when I turned 13.  I remember my friends and I were all wearing fluorescent things, and we watched MTV for hours.  That's when MTV was basically just music videos, and we were all into Duran Duran.  In eighth grade, my friends and I broke the school record for the 400-meter relay track event.  We got our names on the wood plaque hanging in the school gym.”

Mrs. Tarin, the counseling secretary in our school, said, “I grew up the seventh child of nine children.  My dad got a job in Illinois when I was around five years of age so he went there to work.  My mother got tired of trying to take care of the family all by herself so she decided to drive to Illinois, as the only adult, with eight children (we had eight then).  To drive to Illinois it takes about two full days driving straight, which is very difficult especially if you're the only person with a license, and being responsible for eight small kids.  I remember we were in a big green van and it was so full that my sister and I had to ride in the very back, laying on top of our kitchen table!  At one point something happened and when turning a corner all of our luggage came loose and flew off the top of the car over the edge of the road down a big hill.  All of us had to get out and go down this hill picking up clothes and things that had flown out of our suitcases.  I'm sure at the time I thought it was really fun to do that, but now that I'm a mother I can't imagine driving that far with 8 children all alone and letting them get out to run down this hill to get our stuff, because it is very dangerous to do that.  Back then it wasn't required to wear seat belts, which is crazy, because now that I have children I insist they wear theirs for safety.  Us middle-aged adults are all lucky to be alive I'm sure!”  

Mrs. Wimmer, a secretary at SJHS, said, “ When i was in jr. high my friends and I went to go to the school dance and we all bought new pants, because that’s when everyone wore dresses.  When we got to the dance, they wouldn't let us in, so we sat outside the doors and started a chant trying to make it so that we could wear pants.”