Teacher Creature

Teacher Creature "Sit down. Stop talking. Throw your gum away." This is the way my high school algebra teacher began each day. Mrs. Holmes was her name, and being mean was her game. All of my peers had warned about this particular teacher. Strictness was not her only trademark, she was also known to have some bizarre--no, obnoxious--personal habits. Indeed, during the course of my senior year, I began to consider Mrs. Holmes a teacher-creature. (…

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