Ha! Take THAT Mrs. Crabtree!!! (my 8th grade teacher)

[Coventina]

Yes, my 8th grade English teacher was Mrs. Crabtree. Honest to God!

Long story short: I attended an exclusive, private school my 8th grade year on a "charity scholarship" as a gifted child. Boy, did I ever manage to disappoint!

Anyway, mean ole Mrs. Crabtree told me at the end of the year that my writing was so bad that it was an embarrassment to the school.

I am now in graduate school, working on my Master's in Art History.
I went to go see my teacher about my big research paper, and she said it was the best thing she'd seen so far, and that I had a good writing style!

Man, I would LOVE to find Mrs. Crabtree and rub that in her face. She made my life hell that year, and not in that "tough love - for your benefit" way either. She was mean, condescending and sometimes downright cruel.

Yeah, I know, I need to get over it.
:P

[dorktv]

1. so what was the name of the school?

[Coventina]

4. All Saints Episcopal Day School

Worst.School.Ever.

Yeah, I'm bitter.

Inner city kids should not be subjected to the cruelty of the upper class.

[L84TEA]

2. GOOD FOR YOU!!

That oughta teach her to go around with a pissy mouth.

I had a teach thats name was Mrs Turnipseed, she was a doozy also.. I think her and her sister were teachers until they were in their 80s... and boy were they ever mean!!

[Phentex]

3. Awwww consider her an inspiration!

:)

[Worst Username Ever]

5. Looks like she motivated you though, did she not?

[Coventina]

7. Actually, no.

I coasted through high school doing "D" work that usually received a "C" because teachers let me slide. I only went to college because a friend of mine talked me into it.

It was only today as I was leaving the instructor's office that I thought of Mrs. Crabtree.

[blackcat77]

6. My honours comp teacher rode my ass all year long

I hated her guts and she almost wrecked my GPA as well, but I learned a lot from her. Probably more than all the other English/comp teachers put together, so now, with about 35 years of hindsight, I appreciate what she did.

[Coventina]

9. I didn't "learn" anything from Mrs. Crabtree

except that she was a mean person and out to get me. She had no interest in helping me catch up with the rest of the class, just in humiliating me for being behind them, which of course was due to my substandard public school education.

I forgot "milk duty" one day, and she reamed me as if I had murdered someone.

[obreaslan]

8. Did Spanky and Alfalfa hate her too.....

She always seemed nice to me.

[Coventina]

10. No, my Mrs. Crabtree had a beehive hairdo.

I kid you not!

[the Princess]

11. My High School Algebra Teacher

Told me I would need that shit in life - and so far ----- NOPE!

[ronnykmarshall]

12. I did a google search and found the old hag!

That's one hardass lookin broad!



or is this her?

[Coventina]

13. *snicker* Well, that's not the Mrs. Crabtree I had.

But she looks like she could have been just as mean!