Comments on: Confidentially…

By: Robert Gerard Hunt

Robert Gerard Hunt — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:44:01 +0000

Thanks, Karen! There’s a lot of pressure on primary teachers to get it right, isn’t there? Here we are all this time later, and we still haven’t forgotten the negative impressions from those first years. I recall being pulled up by my ears by a certain less-than-kind first-grade-teaching nun I’m sure you must remember!

By: Karen Kyle

Karen Kyle — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:01:05 +0000

Bob, I found this link from my FB newsfeed and am so glad! I have already whittled away time after 5 pm when I should be getting home and feeding my kids:)

Confidentially, I didn’t like Ms. M very well at all. Never did. She had her faves, and I was NOT one of them. Apparently, you weren’t, either:)

By: Robert Gerard Hunt

Robert Gerard Hunt — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:29:45 +0000

Well, some teachers have no sense of humor, you know.

By: Christine Hunt Rodabaugh

Christine Hunt Rodabaugh — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:56:42 +0000

Bob – you just absolutely have to start submitting your essays to some publications -they are priceless! I just had to read ahead to the offending sentence and laughed out loud when I saw it -the real question is, why was Miss M. not laughing out loud, too????

By: Robert Gerard Hunt

Robert Gerard Hunt — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:48:55 +0000

Ha! Thanks, Dad! I guess it was too scandalous for Miss M. to even send a note home about it.

By: Frank (Daddy)

Frank (Daddy) — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:09:39 +0000

Great story,Bob. I was quite aware of B.J. and the Miss M. incident.
But I did not know about the “dirty essay”. Priceless! It’s a wonder
you were not expelled. Well writtten!

By: Robert Gerard Hunt

Robert Gerard Hunt — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:52:30 +0000

Thanks, Michael! It’s a funny part of the human condition, I suppose, whereby Taking Offense At Perceived Intentional Vulgarities + Unwillingness To Acknowledge The Vulgarity = Rage. There’s comedy in there somewhere, I’m sure.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:46:20 +0000

Great story Bob! Having taught in that setting, I have seen the wrath of the Sisters. I, too, was often bewildered at some fits of rage, and I now wonder if I also offended with an ill-chosen vocabulary choice.

By: Robert Gerard Hunt

Robert Gerard Hunt — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:10:51 +0000

Alex – You are too kind. If I install a “random testimonial” widget, I will have to include your generous words.
Mary – Thank you, and thanks for sharing your own amusing story. Personally, I think the wrong call was made on that one. Imagine how much joy could have been brought to so many people had you only been permitted to distribute your valentines.

By: Mary Holtz Dotson

Mary Holtz Dotson — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 02:30:29 +0000

Excellent (and comical) story! I can totally relate, being a former parochial school child, also. I remember in 3rd or 4th grade I took my valentines in on Valentines Day and was prohibited from passing them out. Of course no one explained to me WHY I couldn’t .. I was just told I couldn’t. It wasn’t until later that day, after going home, very sad and confused, that my older sister explained that it was probably due to the fact that on every little envelope I had written a big, bold “HAPPY VD!”