Our English Teacher – How We “Hated” Her

Over fifty years ago, in my high school years, we had a unique English teacher. No one seemed to like her. When you had papers to do, she would praise you verbally and ripped the paper apart when grading it.You were never sure of what your grade would be. I had two or three years with this same teacher. Each year, I would shake my head with some degree of exasperation when I found out who my English teacher would be. “I will be glad when I am out of High School and away from Mrs. …. “. I know that I said that more than once while still in high school. After high school, I went off to technical school in western North Carolina. It was really surprising to me that I felt that I knew more than our English teacher at that school. Yes, once I was away from high school, I realized how well my high school English teacher had prepared me ( and most of the rest of the class as well  I need to look her up and tell her “Thank you”.'