Not Smelling of Roses
A few weeks back I met a couple from the U.S. Once the husband and wife learned that, like them, I too was a retired teacher, they had a number of questions about our education system. We also shared a few stories.
She told me of the time when one of her very young students had been sprayed by a skunk on his way to school. As she described it, within seconds of this young fellow entering the school it was obvious what had happened. Before arrangements were made for him to be taken home, his teacher said, “Suggest to your parents that they use tomato juice.”
The next morning the fellow returned to school, but the intensity of the odour hadn’t diminished much. When she asked him if they tried using tomato juice he grimaced and said, “Yeah, my parents made me drink a full glass.”
Score at least one for the skunk.
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Published by Gary Caines
Gary Caines is a retired teacher. During his 32 year career he taught in Newfoundland and New Brunswick and in private and public schools. He has been a principal, vice-principal, district supervisor and, something of which he is quite proud, has taught at least 1 subject at every grade level – yes, that includes kindergarten.
Over the years he has served as Aide-de-Camp for three Lieutenant Governors and retired as a navigator from the Naval Reserve with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander. He directed and produced school musicals and coached rugby at four different high schools (he was still playing the game at 58). He is a recording artist, a past-master of the Masonic Lodge and, for ten years, served as a volunteer ambulance driver. He has climbed mountains in BC and been bitten by mosquitoes in Labrador. He has backpacked in Europe and sung in Irish pubs. Gary has sailed from Halifax to Thunder Bay and return.
He once taught a class in Appenzell, Switzerland and twice performed with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. He is a part-president of his curling club and of Imperial Theatre. Currently he is the founder and artistic director of the Fundy Sea Shanty Festival. Oh, and something else of which he is proud, he has two beautiful children and three incredibly beautiful grandchildren.
He has a lot of stories to tell.
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5 W's of Education 
Lol, too funny!
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Good one!
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John, still no skunks in Newfoundland?
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