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It was actually Ralph Wiggum who said that Okie

Yes. My English teachers took a personal interest in me. I had an aptitude for spelling and it progressed through each grade level. Each English teacher taught me well. That's why I give you guys such a hard time for spelling errors. I actually won the Interscholastic Spelling Bee in 6th grade. My grammar is not the greatest but I do my best. It does not hurt anyone to be ever learning. I speak both English & Texan.

Freshman English in college was used to weed out the students who had no business being in college. Some teachers were exceptional at doing the weeding. I had one, a young woman, who stood in front of us the 1st day and said that no one would get an A. She didn't give A's because no one was up to her standards. It didn't matter how exceptional you were, you couldn't get an A. A good friend of mine was in the class with me. We'd gone to school together since elementary and he was one of the brilliant ones. Last I heard of him, he was doing medical research at Johns Hopkins. Anyway, when we graduated from college, that was his 1 and only undergraduate B. The stupid bitch stole his valedictorian award.

I could never forget my english teacher.Growing up in rural Kentucky small school.Get this.....it was my Mom!!!! She taught all 4 of us kids.Loved my Mom but it was rough having her as a teacher freshman,sophmore and junior years.My older brother was valedictorian and the only B he ever received was from my mom.Till she passed they still went back and forth about it.She was a tough but fair teacher who loved her students.after she passed we found a box of newspaper clipping that didn't mean much to us but everytime a former student was in the paper she would save the clippings.She was a teacher for all the right reasons and when she passed it was amazing all her old students who came to her funeral.

I was a tough grader, but that attitude is BS. An A grade was hard to come by (it's supposed to be) but not impossible.

A weed out course for the College of Engineering was calculus based General Physics, courtesy of the College of Sciences. There were more engineering majors in one section of that class than there were physics majors in the entire school. The physics profs had no problem working on that imbalance.

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While I condemn the fact that she would not give an A, she (or possibly someone else) did at least teach you that a person graduates FROM an educational institution.

I talk to three of mine quite often from high school. In fact just last week spoke to one of them.