IT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN BUT IT DOES:
I taught at a high school for six years. My annual class load was 125-150 with transfers in and out. I also knew several kids through coaching, club sponsorships,etc.
At intermission of the RAIN concert Thursday night a group of people were standing in line to buy drinks. I like to walk the halls during intermissions because I get tired of sitting. All of a sudden a guy says to a women I take to be his wife "That's my old English teacher but he won't remember me." Usually if a former student gives me a hint or a name, I will remember him/her. In this case I drew a total blank. I fessed up and said I didn't remember him. He told me his graduation year and I still couldn't recall him. Members of his class included Pete Williams, now of NBC News, and several people who have gone on to be very successful both locally and in other parts of the state and country. To make things worse I knew the woman standing in front of him. I had never had her in class but her son had gone to the junior high where I had been a counselor and we had done business. Even worse I knew a former student standing two people behind him who had graduated five years before the student I was spacing out. He said I wouldn't remember him and unfortunately I didn't. Ninety percent of the time I'll come close but this was a total blank and I feel terrible when that happens.
Well, on to the third and final day of what will probably my last Wyoming State Track Meet.
Saturday, May 22, 2010
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