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Did you have any really cool teachers?
I remember two, specifically, who I would classify as “cool.” One was my 10th grade English teacher who said at the beginning of the school year that by the end of the year, we would all know X,Y, and Z. I was skeptical at first, because some of those things meant memorizing unfamiliar poems, learning some Middle English, reading some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, and reading some Shakespeare. I was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to understand any of it, and that I would hate it all. I ended up loving all of it, and I count him as one of the handful of people who made me appreciate reading, literature, history, British stuff, and more.
Also in 10th grade, we had Health Class, which included a few weeks of excellent sex education. In CA, at least when I was in school in the 70’s and early 80’s, sex ed was something that most parents wanted and expected their kids to learn at school, as a supplement to their own teachings. We learned everything we needed to know about how pregnancies occur, and how to prevent un-wanted pregnancies, and how to avoid venereal disease (STDs) as they were referred to back then.
I think the best thing our teacher (a male) did for us, was to show us exactly how to put on a condom (not on himself of course, but on a banana). He was very thorough at explaining how the condom could be torn if the gentleman tried to tear it open with his teeth, and how it needed to be put on, and how and when it needed to be taken off.
From some of the Q’s we get on Fluther, I gather that a lot of people, adults as well as teens, do not know how to properly use, apply, or remove a condom. I thought it was extremely helpful to be shown, something that most parents would cringe at doing, and the kids would have cringed at seeing. This teacher, who was also a PE coach, was one of the coolest teachers ever, and I know of no one in my high school who got pregnant during their time there (although we did know of one girl in our Junior High who got pregnant, because she was having a sexual relationship with one of the two 9th grade art teachers, not mine, thankfully). That was considered a huge scandal back in those days.
Did you have any cool teachers?
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