07th May 2008
Words in the News: Wizardry
In middle school we had a sub named Mr. Gliner. He was no ordinary sub. Usually they were nervous and controlling, sometimes angry, too. Mr. Gliner had a disturbingly giddy manner that made him oblivious to all but the worst behavior. Behind his layered glasses, his eyes were tiny blue peas. Mr. Gliner was also missing a couple of fingers on each hand, and he was built lopsided, so that one pant leg dragged under his foot, torn and stringy.
All we ever did with Mr. Gliner were logic and math problems — no matter whom he was replacing — which he handed out at the beginning of class from a stack of papers he plucked from his briefcase. I always believed he paid for those copies himself.
A recent story has surfaced from Pasco County, FL about a far less bizarre substitute teacher, Jim Picula.
Picula was fired for “wizardry.”
In middle school we had a sub named Mr. Gliner. He was no ordinary sub. Usually they were nervous and controlling, sometimes angry, too. Mr. Gliner had a disturbingly giddy manner that made him oblivious to all but the worst behavior. Behind his layered glasses, his eyes were tiny blue peas. Mr. Gliner was also missing a couple of fingers on each hand, and he was built lopsided, so that one pant leg dragged under his foot, torn and stringy.
All we ever did with Mr. Gliner were logic and math problems — no matter whom he was replacing — which he handed out at the beginning of class from a stack of papers he plucked from his briefcase. I always believed he paid for those copies himself.
A recent story has surfaced from Pasco County, FL about a far less bizarre substitute teacher, Jim Picula.
Picula was fired for “wizardry.”
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