Middle School Appreciation

So in middle school I had a different teacher for every subject and also one for the electives so like 8ish teachers per year for 3 years. I don't remember them all, and I'm sorry because I know I'm going to be leaving lots of people out of this, but I'm doing my best here okay! My whole time was spent at the newly opened White Oak Middle School. It was fed by 3 elementary schools, so I got to see some of my old friends that I lost when I had to move from Crippen to Kings Manor, plus met some new ones.
6th Grade: Ms. Smith, Ms. Sims, Ms. Williams, Ms. Stansbury
7th Grade: Ms. Palermo, Ms. Mouser, Coach Lyles, Ms. Moss
8th Grade: Ms. Bowman, Mr. Witkov, Coach Greer, Mr. Durand
Electives: Mr. Smith for art, Mr. Mendoza for band, Ms. Bloom for theater
OMG THAT'S EVERYONE!!! I DID REMEMBER THEM ALL!!!! If I don't go into detail about each of your class (which I won't) I just wanted to say thank you now and I still remember you guys so that counts for something!

6th grade! New school, lockers, gym class, all the works. I started off taking art, then I decided to take band where I learned to play clarinet and continued my musical career, so I guess thank you to Mr. Mendoza.

Ms. Smith was my math teacher. I loved her class because it was the first accelerated class that I got to have. She was great at explaining things, and I learned a lot that year because we covered the entire 6th and 7th math curriculum that year. One thing I distinctly remember from that year was learning how to divide fractions and Laycee Stagmier made her mad and she gave us the test before teaching the lesson. I got a 19... Not cool Ms. Smith! Even though she was a great student I got two of my unbreakable teaching rules from her: I will never punish the whole class based on the actions of one student, and I will never take a grade on material that I have not taught yet. I know we were hard to put up with, so I get it. I saw you last weekend at the Academic Pentathlon competition.

Ms./Coach Stansbury was an awesome science teacher. I remember one project where we had to teach the class a lesson. My group had states of matter. We made an overhead slide, we had worksheets printed out, we had examples of each state of matter. it was awesome! Thanks for giving me my first shot at teaching science, I guess I learned a lot about myself that year.

7th Grade! I broke my arm and had to have surgery, that wasn't fun...
My English teacher was Ms. Mouser. I remember we read The Outsiders that year and to start the lesson she had this activity where students with blue eyes were forced to be the lower class and brown eyed people were superior. I thought that was a cool way to show the two sides of the gangs. When I got to college one of the videos I had to watch for an education class was about the women who wrote that study. When we read The Giver we got to make our own societies and that was cool. Thanks for making reading fun!

Ms. Moss was one of the greatest Science teachers I've ever had! She was crazy and had such great projects and experiments to make science come alive. She was also sarcastic and witty. She might have rubbed off on me... Thanks for making science lovable!

Briefly I want to talk about Coach Lyles. I'm pretty sure that was his first year teaching. Lots of quotes from famous football players and coaches. He was definitely a life lesson teacher rather than a Texas History teacher. He was cool, he was also very good looking... I know we made life difficult for him that year. My friend even made him dance with her at the end of school dance. Having been in that situation myself I'm reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaally sorry...

8th Grade wasn't anything special. I did get to have an extra elective class that year since I didn't have to take a PE class so I got to add theater arts where I got to hang out with Ms. Bloom. She was awesome and she had such a passion for drama. I learned many skills about the application of makeup, and I can still make a pretty convincing bruise. I was in One-Act-Play that year and I would like to apologize for saying everything I knew how to jinx us before we performed and we didn't get 1st that year...

Mr. Durand was my science teacher that year and he was awful. He made science the worst possible class. It was all book work and we never did any labs or projects. You sir were wasting everyone's time...

Coach Greer was the best history teacher I think I've ever had. He had fill in the blank notes ready to go each day. He had these interactive powerpoints that had quotes and things that jumped out and scared you, he knew how to get the attention of middle school kids (yes he yelled sex). Way to go!

English was Mr. Witkov. Totally creepy guy, but like Edgar Allen Poe kind of creepy, not stalker creepy. He made English cool. I remember we had to write this horror story in his class and mine was so good that he read it to all of his other classes. Way to work the creep factor!