I featured with Steve Abbott. I performed:
- Whuppins
- Elementary
- How to Build a Juke Joint
- The Purpose of Kenny G
- Comfort Woman's Gold
- Shaman
This is the first time I've ever been stopped in the middle of a feature so that I could sign a book for a kid who needed to go home because it was past his bedtime. He must have been about eight years
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[cricket cricket]
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WAY too many teachers and parents get caught up in the details...and pester the creativity right out of the kid.
(note - that apparently didn't happen to 'Yote...reading his handwriting takes psychic abilities...which apparently I have). :D
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Signed,
The Teacher
You hate teachers. I still don't care.
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But if you were my teacher? Le sigh...
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I was always a trouble-maker in class, but I had talent and intelligence, so the teachers tended to punish me while prodding me to do better in a way that wasn't like other kids. They seemed to like me, despite the fact hat I made teaching tough.
Anyhow, in third grade Ms. Clingo (I think she was a first or second year teacher at this point) head me curse in class and she dragged me out of the room and to the bathroom where she proceeded to put me in a headlock and grab a bar of soap, threatening to wash out my mouth.
Teachers used to be hardcore.
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