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[chest rockwell]

When you think about the places and the students that you've taught in the past who do you spend more time thinking about? The good students or the bad students? For me I probably spend a greater amount of time thinking about the bad students that I've taught. Don't know why but they seem to leave a bigger impression even though there are fewer of them.

[Louis VI]

The best students. The ones I've taken from ABCs to speech contest winners. Having taught three years at each of two hagwons back to back has infused deep memories of some multiyear classes, those who began in grades 2 or 3 and went through grades 5 or 6 with me in small classes. I wonder periodically how some of them are doing, man, those two girls in grade three I took all the way to golden bell contests are now in high school somewhere! Those five grades 1 and 2 students I had the unusual pleasure of teaching WITHOUT a book simply because two of their moms are nurses and speak English and I told them I prefer not using books at lunch one day when they came into the restaurant I was in, and the director heeded their request to let me teach as I saw fit: bookless, unlike the other classes - dang those five kids got something special for over two years, really a tailored education, and I miss each and every one of them, would teach those 5 for free for the rest of my life, they are part of my soul, part of the pleasure of life, really, they cried the day I told them I was leaving that town (one just got angry) and my eyes watered a bit though I didn't ball until I got home. If you ever teach a small class for three years and see progress every day and treat them all like friends, like nephews and nieces really, you'd understand.

Treat all students equally, actually get more pleasure from bad students turned good, but in terms of memories: It's easy to remember the good students, though in terms of INCIDENTS, the bad students provide the funniest memories!