Hot for Teacher

Recently, a teacher at the high school I graduated from, was in the news. She was involved in an accident and lost her life. I did not have her as one of my teachers, though I knew who she was. This incident led to me thinking about my former mentors. Many a times, my wife and I have had discussions about former teachers, who influenced us, which ones were duds, who was the meanest, so on and so forth. As a young man speaking, there are certain teachers who may have caught the eye of their young pupil. I think, scratch that, I know my first crush on a teacher, was in the third grade. Ms. Koley. Sorry, I had to pause for a moment to relive those magical years. She was young, single, cute, and she played the guitar and sang in class. How cool was that? Then there was junior high! What a blurry time in a young man's life - girls too! I had a math teacher, Mrs. Hines, who was a head turner! For some reason, you really didn't mind getting in trouble in her class, and having her yell at you. Finally, she noticed me! By the time I got to high school (sometime in the 1900's), I think my teacher crushes wore off, and I finally took notice of the girls my age. Apparently, I've always been attracted to full sized Barbies, and not Skipper. My favorite teacher of all time though, drum roll please, was Ms. Stolen. She was my senior English teacher. No, there were no sparks there, trust me! She just made class fun and interesting. She was the epitome of the cool teacher that connected well with her students. I don't know what she was doing at the time, but there is a picture in our yearbook of Susan (she actually let us call her by her first name), putting on an astronaut uniform. She wasn't afraid to jump right in and have fun with the class. Not too long after graduation, she married and moved to Chicago to teach. If she found out I were blogging about her, I would probably blush. Anyway, kudos to my vote for teacher of the year, Susan!