What's either the best or worst experience you ever had with a teacher? (K-12)
I had my dad as a teacher my senior year of high school, which was pretty darn fun. Normally, students were prohibited from having their parents as teachers, but he was the only one teaching the honors section of econ, so we were given an exception. It was interesting to see my dad at work, for one thing (and he was a very good teacher; it's not easy to make learning how to do your taxes interesting, but he did), and it was hilarious to watch my classmates suddenly turn into complete weirdos. Instead of raising their hand and asking a question like they typically would, they'd whisper to me, "Ask your dad if he's going to give us homework tonight." So I'd just yell out, "Dad, Tim wants to know if you're going to give us homework tonight."
People always ask me if I called my dad Mr. _______ when I had him as a teacher. I so didn't. He was totally Dad. In fact, the rest of the class pretty much ended up calling him Dad, too, or "Melissa's Dad," as in, "Hey, Melissa's Dad—can I go to the bathroom?"
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