Reply #65: We had a crazy nutjob kept a paddle. Former military, treated us like [View All]

[Blue Diadem]

we were soldiers. We had him his first year at our school, we were in 8th grade. We went on to HS and so did he. If someone spoke out of turn, WHAM, down went the paddle full force on the mostly metal desks, either his own or the offending student's desk. He eventually shattered a glass cover on a wooden desk in study hall with that thing and that was the end of the paddle. He taught History and American Government.

He got stranger in HS. We had several girls in our class get pregnant. He began to talk a lot about sex and he'd get pretty graphic at times during class with suggesting ways to please partners that would not result in pregnancy. I remember being shocked walking into his classroom and seeing his favorite suggestion written in large letters on the blackboard.

Early in our senior year, 1972, a couple girls had flown to NY for abortions. Small school, small town, everyone pretty much knew about it. That asshole brought it up in front of the entire Government class. He didn't bring up laws or rights or Roe V Wade, he wanted details of their experience.

We graduated and he left teaching, either that year or the next. I'd heard he went into insurance sales.