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Celebrating the Teachers In our Lives

His Take:  I have been very blessed in my live in a lot of ways but one way I didn’t know that I was so blessed was by the teachers that I had all throughout school. When we decided on this topic, I immediately knew who I was going to write about. Until I sat down at my laptop, My finger just wouldn’t hit that first key, I had to really sit and think about this and I really hate thinking.  After like a day of kicking this around I decided to just go with my gut. During the 1985-86 school year, I got my first male teacher that I had in a few years, and I thought that that was pretty cool. Plus, I had just escaped the WORST teacher that anyone has ever had. Seriously, the woman was Satan. Ted Voelker was the teacher that every boy wished was their uncle. When you’re in 7th grade, everybody older than you is old, but I think he honestly in his late 20s or early 30s.  Let’s put it this way-he listened to Van Halen. He was really tough, but always fair. He had a great ...