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Show Alberta Freshman 6-3 p.l6 A Well because! guess I was not satisified with having two years , so I started to go to summer school. and I went very summer and I went at night until I~ could graduate, but I never went back in the winter time. So ween I did graduate, I didn't know anybody in the class.They were all students and I had taught several years. So I didn't go to the graduation. I called up and said I was teaching,w hich was the truth and! couldn't get aw~~. But then my younger brother didn't go either. He was working in the jewelry and he didn't like that sort of thing anyway. Pomp and cermony didn't appeal to him and my older brother's the only who did . ... , · . ·1 I went tohis graduation because! never did go to my own. But I graduated with a major in -- or I was going to graduate with a major in French and I had all of the requirements. Now I found out that in order to teach elementary school. I would have to have certain credits in educationi so I took that, switched over after I had one major--into elementary education. And I like the younger childr€n. I trained in F~~~~£e? School and Smith's Food King is there now on 21 and 21. There's three bldg. A big school and very strict principal. She used to--children in those days dind't need someone.;J,dlhe school grounds, it was a big school too<» ~~he' .. ~ just rap on the window! She was a person with her hair piled on her head, very severe looking, and she'd pound on that window and they'd look up and they'd stop right away whatever they were doing, they knew it was wrong. But we never had to pa trol the school grounds in those days. The children in the main were wonderful childrlen. We had a few of course who had problems. But they were the minority,~nd I trained as a student teacher there in the three different grades: 1st grade, 2nd grade, and 4th grade. And the 4th grade teacher was very different from the ·" other two. And shewas very verbal and less patient. And she said, Alberta, you'll never get along in the world if you don't stand up for yourself. The other teachers will walk right over you.'' And I've always remembered that1 becausei guess I was shy. I was asked as a student teacher to help give a party for the teachers and in those days, I thought you had to bear the expense. I didn't realise that¢ when the teachers gave a party, everybody helped pay. So I bought all of the decorations _, rlv "'T> and had alot of candle stick holders that I bought aboutnl2 myself- as well as doing the work and decoratedthem all up. And I was too shy to ask any of things of hw you get it or wherethe money came from and they didn't tell me. !worked real hard, I took it seriously. Teaching isn't a 9-5 job. You have to do a great deal of work at night and inthe summer. But I'm gla& had the experience I had because I taught the first 6~ grades and I taught sometimes one subject, math, and tReA- so I had about 250 students a day in those days. And we did try to indivudalize the work. L You mean indifferent classes .. A We--every 45 minutes, we had another class. And I had one year when I had 7 classes a day and didn't have a break of any t4~ekind except recess. And I was at the schoolyou had to know your combinations perfectly. So we had speed tests and the children |
