Teacher
English 1-2, English 5-6,
Reading
BA - English Literature 1975
University of Pennsylvania
MA - Curriculum & Instruction 2001
Boise State University
"...to improve every student's use of language in some small way before they're done with me."
Office - Room 109
Central Academy
6075 N. Locust Grove
Meridian, ID 83646
(208) 855-4325 Fax: (208) 855-4324
E-mail: knife.david@meridianschools.org
Why do we gotta take so much
English? Why, indeed. If I had a dime for every time I had heard a student
mangle the language in the process of asking me that question, I would never
have to
answer it again, because I'd already be rich. Instead, I'm an English teacher.
It's fun, actually, and when I hear even a single student improve his use of the language in some small way, by using "as", for example, where "like" won't answer, I think I am, like, rich. (I'm wrong, of course, but only in the material sense.) So if pressed, I guess I would have to say that this, for me, is what will have to pass for a personal mission statement; that is, to improve every student's use of language in some small way before they're done with me.