Mrs. Secrest was my fourth grade teacher. I do not have much memory of this class. The biggest thing that I remember is that I had come in contact with poison oak or ivy at some point during the school year and it got all over my face. My face was really swollen. I was [...]
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Mrs. Bowers was my third grade teacher. Like the first and second grade I do not have a lot of specific memories of this class. I remember the classroom, layout and other visual things like the other grades, but I don’t have many specific highlights from the class. Mrs. Bowers was a nice lady from [...]
Mrs. Verla Griffin was my second grade teacher. She was a very old woman with gray hair. I don’t think she was married. She gave her life to teaching 2nd graders. She may have taught others. I’m not sure. She was old and exactly what you would think an old lady from that time would [...]
Mrs. Garrison was my first grade teacher. She was a nice lady from what I remember. I went to Wingate Elementary, the old school building which was torn down and built anew in the 80’s. Mrs. Garrison was a short lady. We used to take naps everyday. We would bring our blankets and lay them [...]
Public school was torture for me. It was a horrible time in my life, which made up the bulk of my childhood. My parents had five boys in the space of seven years and they were ill-equipped to care for us. I’m sure school was a welcome relief. As a parent now I find it [...]
