Educating Esme

Everyone of us had that really awesome teacher in our school. The one that every student wanted but only the select few were lucky enough to have.

At Swope Middle School, my junior high there was a teacher who dressed in period costumes and decked out his entire classroom. When they studied the Wild West he dressed as a cowboy and made the inside of his classroom look like an old west main street complete with store fronts and porches. I always prayed that I would get that teacher, but I had a boring teacher who when we studied the Donner Party wrote each person's name of those who had been eaten on a plate next to a fork and knife. Kind of morbid for 13 year old kids.

Esme is that kind of teacher. Surprisingly you find out that aspiring to be the most awesome teacher ever wasn't her first choice. She would love to be an opera singer, or a librarian, but decided to give teaching a go. The stories are absolutely hilarious, and it will make you glad that you aren't sending your kids to a downtown Chicago Elementary School.

She approaches teaching with such creativity and bluntness that it makes me want to become a teacher myself. It's an incredibly short read, only a couple hundred pages, but the text is large and the pages are small. My only complaint is that it didn't last longer.