The Good Ones

I've had many different teachers throughout the years.  Some good and some bad but I will always have two teachers/coaches that stick out to me.  They were both math teachers but I had only had one of them as my teacher and had the other as my coach and was her student aide.  Coach Alaimo was my geometry teachers as well as Weightlifting coach and was one of the best teachers.  She would be sure everyone in the class would understand the lesson before moving on.  You would actually look forward to her class because she made it fun and easy to understand.  She was nice, maybe a little too nice and sometimes students would take advantage of how nice she was but she didn't let others both her.  She was great at her job as well as a coach.  Alaimo would come over to everyone's desk during classwork and have a one on one talk with all of us to check on how we're doing.  Coach KJ was a little bit different on the other hand.  She wouldn't take crap from no one on and off the field.  I never had her as a math teacher but I remember friends that did before I started flag football and she was quite the intimidating one at first.  Both my junior and senior year before practice and sometimes during lunch, I would go to her class and before I could even finish asking her for help she would say, "Did you try it on your own first?"  KJ would challenge me and I liked that about her.  I liked her teaching ways, it was different but a good different.  She was different in her behavior and not as easy going.  If students were talking while she was doing her lesson or even before or after practice while she was talking, you best be ready to get yelled at.  Both we're great teachers and coaches and I will forever remember them.