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3.04.2003my props to him is this story.... every single report card i ever had in grammar school, from kindergarten to eighth grade said, in the comments section: "Jennifer must learn to sit still and be quiet and pay attention. She is disruptive to the class" by the time i was in second grade, most of the teachers i had were fed up with me. yes thats right, second grade. they were about to put me into special ed classes with the droolers and delinquents (miscreants were abounding in the second grade you know) and a teacher approached my parents- who by the way were the cause of most of my insubordinate behavior, either by imitation or the absolute CHAOS that was the state of my home life- this teacher Joan Traverso, said "i don't think she is special ed. I think she is smart and bored'. my parents knew that was really smart but in the CHAOS that they were creating, there was no room for 'channeling the energy' they just yelled at me. so they put me into a pilot program in my school called Gifted and Talented. I spent the rest of my grammar school years there with the 10 other G&T students in my grade. Mrs Traverso was the head of the program and she didn't take my smart ass ways lightly. She was a hard ass when it came to discipline -which i deperately needed since it was a free for all at home. so she wasn't one of those teachers that everyone thinks is cool, but we didn't hate her. I still was bad but at least i was learning something. i didn't appeciate what she had done for me until i was in college. She was paying attention and didn't give in like the other assholes who wanted nothing but easy non-challenging kids who got "B's" and "C's" and played sports. I was none of those things. i was a smart, defiant, strange kid with a pretty bad home life who needed some structure and some advanced reading. i kept in touch with her for many years and then my beginning NYC years, i lost contact with her. She retired and i think she moved away. But i still think about her. so i said to glenn teaching is a profession that is slow to reward. The kids that you are teaching right now don't get it. but some of them will some day But i have still not gotten over the fact that i didn't get into the G&T art program....bastards .: posted by landry 9:53 AM
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