He is a myth at our school! Our English and former Latin-teacher. Be it the rumors about his wooden foot, which is said to make him recognizable over a great distance, as if Captain Ahab is taking a walk over the deck of the Pequod, or his reputation as an Ex-Veteran-Nazi-Officer, or his grown famous quotes like “I surely am not the negro wiping the board for you!” and “On Monday I will take care of you, but with an axe!” or “In your case they should reintroduce death penalty !”.
Strangely enough, he was left unchecked by school administration in spite of such and other commentarys.
Recently he performed, in my opinion, his gravest impudence:
A female classmate’s father deceased not long ago. When she returned (for some time she was exempted from school due to her recent tragic loss) off all things she was lucky enough to rejoin a lesson of the aforementioned.
He quizzed vocabulary and definitions. 4 implied words were funeral, body, desperate and to bury. These were the only terms associated with this exact topic. And for every single one of these four words he asked the girl whose father died recently!!! The first word he quizzed was “funeral” which he asked her. After that he asked another pupil the word before, so he went back because he actually skipped this word specifically for her. There you might have thought “OK, that was a coincidence”. But already after the second time doubts regrew and not later than the third time it became clear that can’t be fortuitousness .
And there is nothing you can do against this (excuse my French) asshole. Because teacher is always right.
(orginially posted on May 10th, 2006)
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