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elSicomoro · 08-12-2003, 10:23 AM

What brought this up, UT?

I was very fortunate--maybe it's because I went to Catholic schools, or just good schools period. My teachers were generally pretty decent and saw my potential. They'd get on me if my grades slipped at all, and encouraged me. I only had one really nasty teacher--a nun that I had the misfortune of having for grades 3 & 4. She was pretty mean, to the point of being hateful. She didn't faze me in the end though. Overall, my mom was probably harder on me when it came to school than teachers.

Corporal punishment went out during my 2nd grade year (1983-84). I was fortunate never to face the "board of education." I had a friend that was still facing it though--in high school.

I have a 10-year HS reunion coming up next summer. I initially had mixed feelings about going. I didn't go to the 5-year in 1999 (I had just moved out to DC at the time), and quite frankly, I don't know if I would have gone. As a whole, I hated high school--mainly because of the stupid motherfuckers that I dealt with. Fortunately, most of the teasing died after sophomore year, and was non-existant by mid junior year. (By that time, I learned how to use my size and words to my advantage. Worked like a champ...and still does.)

By '99, I had pretty much cut myself off from anyone I dealt with in high school, with the exception of my best friend, John. We talked about the reunion while I was in St. Louis in April, and I agreed with how he put it: Yeah, HS sucked, but it's like a train wreck...you can't help but go to see what's happened to everyone.

There are certainly some people with whom I wouldn't mind catching up, and as I thought about it more, it makes perfect sense to go: Terry Blastenbrei, the stand-up comic wannabe, the singer wannabe, that fat fucker that ran with the "alcoholics", the guy that was "going to bring a gun to school", the smart guy that wouldn't hang with the smart clique...graduated magna cum laude from college, is smarter and more sharp-tongued than ever before, has moved across the country, has a great job making mad paper, thinks Catholicism is a crock of shit, and...the best parts of all...is engaged to a black woman, living in sin, and has no plans to have children or even get married.

It's going to be a hoot.

08-12-2003, 10:23 AM	#3
elSicomoro Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 12,486	What brought this up, UT? I was very fortunate--maybe it's because I went to Catholic schools, or just good schools period. My teachers were generally pretty decent and saw my potential. They'd get on me if my grades slipped at all, and encouraged me. I only had one really nasty teacher--a nun that I had the misfortune of having for grades 3 & 4. She was pretty mean, to the point of being hateful. She didn't faze me in the end though. Overall, my mom was probably harder on me when it came to school than teachers. Corporal punishment went out during my 2nd grade year (1983-84). I was fortunate never to face the "board of education." I had a friend that was still facing it though--in high school. I have a 10-year HS reunion coming up next summer. I initially had mixed feelings about going. I didn't go to the 5-year in 1999 (I had just moved out to DC at the time), and quite frankly, I don't know if I would have gone. As a whole, I hated high school--mainly because of the stupid motherfuckers that I dealt with. Fortunately, most of the teasing died after sophomore year, and was non-existant by mid junior year. (By that time, I learned how to use my size and words to my advantage. Worked like a champ...and still does.) By '99, I had pretty much cut myself off from anyone I dealt with in high school, with the exception of my best friend, John. We talked about the reunion while I was in St. Louis in April, and I agreed with how he put it: Yeah, HS sucked, but it's like a train wreck...you can't help but go to see what's happened to everyone. There are certainly some people with whom I wouldn't mind catching up, and as I thought about it more, it makes perfect sense to go: Terry Blastenbrei, the stand-up comic wannabe, the singer wannabe, that fat fucker that ran with the "alcoholics", the guy that was "going to bring a gun to school", the smart guy that wouldn't hang with the smart clique...graduated magna cum laude from college, is smarter and more sharp-tongued than ever before, has moved across the country, has a great job making mad paper, thinks Catholicism is a crock of shit, and...the best parts of all...is engaged to a black woman, living in sin, and has no plans to have children or even get married. It's going to be a hoot.