It Finally Happened
Years ago I told one of my second-grade classes that when one of their own children became a student of mine, it would be my last year teaching. This morning a little 9 year-old boy said to me, “Mr. Noon, you taught my mom when she was in second grade.
I spoke too soon.
readerdiane wrote,
It used to be that my students would call me “Mom.” Now sometimes they call me “Grandma,” and I ask how old their grandmothers are and I wish I hadn’t……..;)
Link | August 24th, 2006 at 3:26 pm
Brian Crosby wrote,
My similar experience was stepping into the room next to mine to let the substitute teacher know that if she had any questions or problems she could find me right next door - only to find out that she was a former sixth grade student of mine.
Diane (comment above) - I hate to admit it but I have students call me “Mom” at least several times a year (about the same number of times I get called “Dad” btw).
Link | August 24th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
Chris wrote,
Had my own ‘milestone moment’ last week. I saw in my website referral stats a number of hits from 2 blogs I didn’t recognize. When I went and looked at them, it turned out that it was former elementary school students of mine who are now in college. They just started googling the names of old teachers and found my photography business.
Made me feel older than I really am, so I can relate!
Link | August 25th, 2006 at 7:20 am