Some Teachers Really Educate

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Teachers get a deservedly bad rap these days in many schools. Many students learn more about political correctness than how to read, write and function in the real world. There are some gems who are different and special. Excerpt below, link to story:

Yonkers teacher worked miracles for 30 years

By Phil Reisman

Yonkers has 38 public schools. Many of them are named after somebody important.

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Nine elementary schools are merely numbered.

But none of the schools are named after a Yonkers school teacher. By that I mean a pure, down-in-the-trenches teacher, an individual who was exceptionally dedicated and whose career began and ended in the classroom.

Michelle Sobel was that kind of teacher.

Great teachers are miracle workers. And for 30 years, Sobel quietly and patiently taught the miracle of reading to the hardest cases — the kids from the city’s poorest, most troubled homes

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Among those she motivated was Jackie Smalls, who was pulled out of class for reading help. Smalls remembered how kind and understanding Mrs. Sobel was.

She was such an inspiration, in fact, that Smalls became a teacher. She teaches fourth grade at School 23.

Sobel was a lifesaver, continually pulling young people away from the abyss of ignorance.

As an after-school tutor working out of her home in Port Chester, she had this one student who came from a broken home and was functionally illiterate. He was 16 years old and lost.

She taught him how to read, and gave him dinner, too. According to Jerry Sobel, the boy is now a man who runs his own carpet-cleaning business.

Another miracle.

I could go on and on about Michelle Sobel, who died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2005 at the age of 56.

The stories about her are amazing. Just ask Kenny O’Rourke and Jackie Smalls and countless others whose lives she touched and changed for the better.

Many of those stories will be recounted Wednesday night when a proposal to have School 21 named after her is formally brought before the Yonkers Board of Education.

It’s a modest proposal — and a tribute to all the miracle workers who teach.

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Teachers get a deservedly bad rap these days in many schools. Many students learn more about political correctness than how to read, write and function in the real world. There are some gems who are different and special. Excerpt below, link to story:

Yonkers teacher worked miracles for 30 years

By Phil Reisman

Yonkers has 38 public schools. Many of them are named after somebody important.

*************

Nine elementary schools are merely numbered.

But none of the schools are named after a Yonkers school teacher. By that I mean a pure, down-in-the-trenches teacher, an individual who was exceptionally dedicated and whose career began and ended in the classroom.

Michelle Sobel was that kind of teacher.

Great teachers are miracle workers. And for 30 years, Sobel quietly and patiently taught the miracle of reading to the hardest cases — the kids from the city’s poorest, most troubled homes

***************

Among those she motivated was Jackie Smalls, who was pulled out of class for reading help. Smalls remembered how kind and understanding Mrs. Sobel was.

She was such an inspiration, in fact, that Smalls became a teacher. She teaches fourth grade at School 23.

Sobel was a lifesaver, continually pulling young people away from the abyss of ignorance.

As an after-school tutor working out of her home in Port Chester, she had this one student who came from a broken home and was functionally illiterate. He was 16 years old and lost.

She taught him how to read, and gave him dinner, too. According to Jerry Sobel, the boy is now a man who runs his own carpet-cleaning business.

Another miracle.

I could go on and on about Michelle Sobel, who died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2005 at the age of 56.

The stories about her are amazing. Just ask Kenny O’Rourke and Jackie Smalls and countless others whose lives she touched and changed for the better.

Many of those stories will be recounted Wednesday night when a proposal to have School 21 named after her is formally brought before the Yonkers Board of Education.

It’s a modest proposal — and a tribute to all the miracle workers who teach.

its a miracle that she was able to do her job? I don,t get it. what's miraculous about this story?

And if we're honest most american teachers are better suited to cleaning latrines then being anywhere near a classroom.

sample what kind of trash gets to mold the minds of the young:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM45kYAKyCU

some teachers are barely literate in the states.

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some teachers are barely literate in the states.

And in Canada too, at least in Peterborough, Ontario.

I met two of those teachers at a Great Big Sea concert in New York City. They were unable to identify Montcalm and Wolfe or the Battle of the Plains of Abraham!!! I had to explain it to them.

Trust me, I'm a Yank who knows literally nothing about Canada.

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And in Canada too, at least in Peterborough, Ontario.

I met two of those teachers at a Great Big Sea concert in New York City. They were unable to identify Montcalm and Wolfe or the Battle of the Plains of Abraham!!! I had to explain it to them.

Trust me, I'm a Yank who knows literally nothing about Canada.

yes in canada as well, liberalism is spreading all sorts of joys and progress everywhere it rears its retarded head.

I remember having a teacher misspell Asia: as "AZIA"

I swear to god...

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I remember having a teacher misspell Asia: as "AZIA"

Isn't that the correct spelling in the Canadian language?