The Buckets by Greg Cravens for September 01, 2014

Good boy, Eddie! I was (and am) terrified of going into a class of 10-year-olds or younger. Older ones, I love to teach – younger ones…

Either Eddie found his dream teacher or he is dreaming up something else.

Agreed mam.

It’s been his first year of school since 2001.

It’s been Dennis the Menace’s first year of school since, I think, 1963 or something.

Aaaand you have to keep in mind that, these days, the first day of first grade is NOT their first day of school. That’d be kindergarten, and, in some states that’d come after a couple years of pre-school… and before that, wherever the parents had them enrolled since they were six months old…

Miss Whatshername looks like she could be Sheila’s older sister or aunt. I bet that wasn’t intentional but it could certainly work.

Hhhmmmm. I’ll have to watch out for stuff like that. I was just trying to get more people with spot black in their hair, so far as I recall.

Its not the fear – its whether or not the teach actually wants to be there, with the kids.

My professor for the comp sci operating systems course was clearly terrified of public speaking. You could hear it in the pained crackle in her voice during every lecture. It was excruciating to sit through. You would think someone with that persistent phobia would go into a different line of work.

Or maybe, you should give some respect to someone who faced her fear every single day!