For our money, a no-nonsense teacher is the best kind of teacher. The one that tells you to shut up, get your butt in your seat, put your phone away, and pay attention, or he might just start throwing things around the place. This Professor Brown seems like one of those guys.
He is a physics professor, and they come in two stripes: the aforementioned no-nonsense style and the kind that is so loopy and weird you might as well not be taking a class at all. Professor Brown is the kind that forges people that come up with new theories.
We Are Many
There is always that one family in school. The one that just has kid after kid, and every single one of the brothers or sisters is weird and strange in their own special way. Sometimes literally special. And sometimes, every single sibling is as bad as the next. This is pretty much what the following teacher had to experience.
But, eventually, there are no more family members for the teachers to handle. Always good for the teachers, but new troublesome kids will always be entering your classroom door. This teacher was super relieved that this girl was the last of her nightmare family that he would have to deal with.
Smile for the Camera, Princess
A photo ID is just another part of the school year for many teachers. Most of them just show up in some nice duds, give the camera a grin, and move along. For some strange reason, one teacher decided the proper thing to do one year was to dress up like Princess Leia from “Star Wars.”
He was likely already bald on top – guys named Brian Dennert usually are – so he grabbed a white robe, a little hair bun, and a Star Wars laser and looked ready to overthrow the Empire. Right after he is done teaching AP World History.
Remember the Name
You know Buzz Aldrin, Neil Armstrong, and a few others, but what about the very first man in space? His name was Yuri Gagarin, and he was from the then-Soviet Union, getting strapped into a big bomb that would make him leave the planet way before it was cool. Or, let's be real here, all that safe.
At only five-foot-two, that didn't stop him from carrying his huge cojones into one of the first rockets to leave the surly bonds of Earth. He completed one orbit of the world on April 12th, 1961, landing safely to become an international hero.
Not Most People, Anyway
Maybe you have pants made of newspaper cartoons; we do not know. But, for the most part, this teacher is correct – kids think they are so sneaky, but they are as transparent as the glass in your living room sometimes.
Once you hit your thirties, you start to realize you didn't really get away with anything – teachers and parents just decided they had to pick their battles if they wanted to get through the day. They want you to pay attention, but fine, go ahead and text. Only three more hours until school is over. Then they get to go home.