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Teacher W. S. H. sent AtE the following letter:

"Your Access to Energy is absolutely great, entertaining and informative. One of my students gave me a gift subscription, which suits me perfectly. He knew exactly where I am coming from. I am the one teacher at our school who is not a member of the NEA. We had a 'sick out' = strike at our school several years ago. I told my students, 'I have not been absent yet this year. I'm going to be here tomorrow and I expect you to be here too.' As I was the only one teaching that day, I felt like the last living cell in a dead body.< /FONT >

"I teach about 40 students in each of my five physics classes. I demand that the administrators admit as many students as are qualified. Everyone should understand physics. Now the union is on my back for exceeding the quota: 28 students per class. It reminds me of the masons who stop working at 2 pm after they have laid their 400 bricks.

"The heat is really on for me to join the union. For the second time in four years I have won the Teacher of the Year Award for our school. That does not make the NEA look too good. The students ask me why I do not park in the faculty parking lot. I reply, 'I'd hate to be mistaken for one of the teachers' .'' He is one of the Wild Cards (AtE 21-6) that makes America work.



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Vol. 22, No. 2

Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
Volume: Issues
Issue/No.: Vol. 22, No. 2

Date: November 01, 1994 02:19 PM
Title: Optimism vs. Pessimism

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