Xuzi Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I didn't have all that pleasant a HS experience, and there was only one class I really enjoyed going to, and that was math. Not because I excelled at it, but because the teacher was awesome. He was fun and easy going, but still expected a lot from us, and he typically got it. And if we finished with work a bit early (and sometimes even if we didn't) he'd tell us about his son's antics at Yale, or pull out his "desk monkey" (actually a gorilla), that "danced" and played the Macarenna. He was everyone's favorite teacher, even if they never had him as a teacher. He'd been a lawyer before becoming a teacher, and taught because he genuinely enjoyed it and felt called to it, even if the pay wasn't lucrative. After I graduated he became the vice-principle of the high school, and in four years he'd have retired. And yesterday he was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon for hitting a man several times with a golf club during an argument on a golf course. I haven't even seen the man in over a decade, but I feel like I got a punch to the gut. I'm just so disappointed. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remudamom Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Wow. What in the world could have happened? Doesn't sound like the man you knew. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hthnmamax2 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 :grouphug: I'm sorry. I know how you feel. The teacher that sparked my love of History and someone I greatly admired was arrested a few years after I graduated for getting it on with the prom queen. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xuzi Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 Wow. What in the world could have happened? Doesn't sound like the man you knew. From what I can tell from the news articles I've found, he was golfing with some friends and the group in front of them was taking longer than they liked, and my old teacher and his buddies were complaining about them. The husband of one of the women in the slower group got upset at the way they were talking about his wife, and he approached my old teacher, an argument ensued, and out came the golf club. He also threatened to hit a man who tried to intervene and stop the argument. The fact that he was speaking disrespectfully about a woman is as shocking to me as the golf club attack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
littlebug42 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I have had two such experiences. My band director from high school was one of the most influential people in my life as a teen. He got me to work for things that no one else could and really helped me figure out who I was and what my place was in this world. After I graduated, he was busted for sleeping with a student and went to prison for stalking said student after he was fired. I have never quite gotten over it. My fifth grade teacher was sent to prison several years ago for molesting young boys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiana Daniels Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 That's awful! So hard to see someone you've respected and influenced you positively go down like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swellmomma Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 :grouphug: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MommyK Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Maybe he has developed some kind of dementia.. :( Try to tell yourself that he isn't who he used to be.. kind of separate the versions of him. Bleh. Not a great suggestion, but I don't know how else to offer sympathy. Frankly, it all just stinks. I'm so sorry. :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbecueMom Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 My band director from high school was one of the most influential people in my life as a teen. He got me to work for things that no one else could and really helped me figure out who I was and what my place was in this world. After I graduated, he was busted for sleeping with a student and went to prison for stalking said student after he was fired. I have never quite gotten over it. Sounds familiar. There is a reason my music degree is not being used. :glare: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DianeW88 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 (edited) Yeah, it's hard when someone you respect falls from their pedestal. I went to an all girls school. Our guidance counselor was a priest. All the girls adored him. We showed up for school one morning to find that he had been arrested the night before in an x-rated drive-in for molesting two underaged teen boys. :glare: Then during the morning announcements our principal said that we should just put it out of our minds since he had been working in an all girls school and it wasn't a problem for us. :blink: :001_huh: Two people fell from their pedestals that day....the crash was deafening. Did a little googling. Found out that the boys who were molested were 13 and 14 years old and that the priest (who did plead guilty) was then ultimately (after first serving in two other parishes in VA) transferred to Seton Home School as a chaplain and curriculum consultant. Nice, huh? Edited July 18, 2012 by DianeW88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldskool Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Actually, this happened to me today. It is very sad and I have been depressed about it most of the day. I am trying to take it as another reminder of people being human and not to put them on pedestals. Boy, it sure is hard though to see people from a different point of view though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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