One of My Former Students

lostman

lostman

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Add him to the list - 1 killed in a gang fight, 1 shot and killed another of our students, 1 in prison as accomplice to murder and armed robbery.

This one really saddens me though, because when I did have him few years ago, my co-teacher and I thought we were getting through to him. We saw tons of improvement, pulling his average up from an F at the beginning of the year, to almost a B by the end of the year. The others I did not see that kind of improvement.

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One of my former students achieved fame by staging his own death. About a week before he was due to begin serving time for rape, he exhumed a body from a nearby cemetery, put it in a car, rolled it off a county road into a ravine, and set it on fire. Police were suspicious immediately, and caught him a couple months later. "48 Hours" had a twenty-minute story on him a few years back. A real winner.

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Wild Bill: I teach in far west Houston (Cy Fair).

Honestly, in 28 years of teaching, the ones I mentioned in the original post are the ones I know of. There are probably a few more, but they did not make the news. These made the news. I know I teach many more kids that are successful compared to this, but these hurt. It is almost like a parent. This last one especially, because he made a huge turn around while in my class. It is truly heart breaking.

Coelacanth: Thanks for the story about your student. It is always good to know others understand how you feel. I actually had former student in the NFL as well, playing in the Super Bowl. But I am a science teacher, so I really take very little credit for his success on the field!
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I do have a couple former students who are now science teachers themselves, though. I always joke with them that they are great science teachers because they had at least one great science teacher!
 
I'm guessing it's not a top private school or the likes of Austin Westlake, SA Reagan, etc... See, Coel, I am one bright guy.
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I'm guessing you teach in the inner city at a large public HS. Damn, I am smart.
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Now If I could only figure out which one. Must be like Dallas Carter or South Oak Cliff, or possibly Galveston Ball. Houston Memorial?
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To answer the riddle, Coelacanth, the extinct fish, must teach in Burnet. My lil sis lives in Oatmeal. That was a bewildering case. What a dumbass, not to mention, sociopath!
 
The body snatching was in Leander. God, I am dense.
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I grew up in Austin. You must teach at Austin Travis, Johnston, or Crocket.
 
Lostman I teach in LISD. Did you teach any of teh students involved in the case that became the subject of the book "Lost Innocence?" It's about the girls murdered off TC Jester just north of the loop.
 
CPF - no I did not have them. I am in far west Houston out near Bear Creek Park. I think those kids might have been in Aldine ISD at the time.
 
One of my former students was killed in a police shootout, and one worked in the West Wing, and both were in the top 24% of their respective classes, so you can't always tell....
 
I've got one in jail from years ago for child molestation. I have one awaiting trial for running down a cop during a chase.

It's hard to get these kids to understand changing their lives when being poor and struggling is all they know. Why would they work at HEB for 6 a hour when they can turn a K in an hour selling smack?
 
I have one who is serving time for beating a baby, not his, to death. Another who shot through a glass window at a woman and her two kids, and one who kicked a FG last night in the Fiesta Bowl. I've lost count on how many have died from car crashes.
 
Wow - I am floored by the responses. I know, when you teach in a large metro area, and you have been at it a while, it usually only a matter of time before you have at least one student who gets into so much trouble it makes the news. Each one hurts a little bit, but this one really made me sad.

Jeremy earned our 110% award the year I taught him. When he came to the awards ceremony he was all pimped out in a new suit his mama had bought him and after he got his award he had the hugest grin on his face and mama was snapping pictures galore. He struggled so much at first and was ready to give up. Then, due to rezoning for a new school, he had to move to another middle school for 8th grade, so no telling what happened after he left our school. Just makes me incredibly sad, that is all. Thanks all for your stories.
 
OK - this goes from bad to worse. Just learned this evening that one of my former students is on "those" websites with a new name.
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I now know more about her and all her physical attributes than I ever wanted to know.

Did you ever look at these women and men and think "Who are they, and who knows them?" "Are their family and friends proud of them?" I have known her since her mom and I were pregnant at the same time. She and her twin (not in the business) went to school with Lostboy#1, played soccer with him, grew up with him. After high school graduation, she moved away, her parents divorced a few years before.

I think I am going to start saying I have never taught a nuclear physicist or a molecular biologist. Heck, I don't think I have even taught someone who has gone to med school.

My former and current students have some interesting aspirations and professions.
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