[reagan_fanatic]

I had a math teacher back in junior high that was one of the meanest most insufferable people I had ever met. One day, a few of us decided to give some of it back to her, so we got one of those pull-apart firecrackers and, while she was out of the classroom, tied one end to her chair leg and the other to her desk.

When she came back in and pulled out her chair, the cracker went off and she levitated about a foot off the floor. She was so mad, she kept us all after school for an hour and a half that day.

At the end of the school year, she came up to me and said, "you know, the reason I was so hard on you kids is because I wanted you all to succeed."

I felt really, really bad, but there was no way I was gonna admit my part in it!

[Max in Utah]

Sounds like Mrs. Watkins in 6th grade English. Norman Walker put several baby possums in her desk drawer before class. The few of us who knew about sat there and tried very hard to keep straight faces when the teacher came in and sat down. When she opened the desk drawer take out her organizer, well... levitated is as good a description as any.

[art_rocks]

“At the end of the school year, she came up to me and said, “you know, the reason I was so hard on you kids is because I wanted you all to succeed.” “

There is a difference between hard and mean.