Releasing A Vampire by Jacky Dahlhaus

Author:Jacky Dahlhaus
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Folla Fiction Publishing
Published: 2017-09-23T23:00:00+00:00

Bullsbrook, Wednesday, September 29th, 2004

Two months of teaching had been tough, as I had known it was going to be. In my private interview with Mr. Finkle that first day, he had told me ‘If you survive the first year, you can do anything.’ It had sounded so easy. During my studies, I had made lesson plans and gathered science experiments I could do with the students. Unfortunately, the school didn’t have much material to work with. It appeared that the previous science teacher hadn’t been in favor of practical experience and had taught mostly out of textbooks. I basically had to start from scratch. I was glad to find some websites that gave ‘kitchen experiments’ that anybody could do at home to show scientific principles. So I had my students scavenge their kitchens at home for material. I loved doing experiments and, as expected, so did my students.

Not all experiments went as planned. I made a typical beginners mistake when I walked out of the classroom to retrieve some material I had forgotten to get from the store room before the lesson started. When I returned, one of the students had set a desk on fire with a Bunsen burner. There was a big commotion of course and Mr. Finkle gave me a serious reprimand when I told him what happened. The student was suspended for two days. I wasn’t sure this would have the desired effect on the student, but I certainly learned my lesson.

Sue had fewer problems with her pupils. She was such a bubbly person. Everybody instinctively liked her and nobody gave her any insubordination problems. Of course, there was much less chance of students starting a fire in her classroom than in mine. I had the notion that most of the male students had a crush on her, from year seven to year twelve. Sue didn’t believe me when I told her my suspicions at first, until one of the students had put his hand on her butt while she was walking through the classroom during group work. She hadn’t known how to react and had ignored the incident at the time. She came to my place that evening, terribly upset, and I advised her to tell Mr. Finkle about it. She didn’t do it as she couldn’t prove it had happened. It had been so busy and chaotic in the classroom at the time that she didn’t think anybody else had noticed. Later she told me she had become a bit more distant from her students from that moment on, standing behind her desk most of the time while teaching. I couldn’t blame her. I probably would do so too, if I didn’t need to interact with my students so much more.

Not that anybody would like to touch my skinny butt.

Charlie had a completely different issue teaching. As he had been working on his own for years, he struggled to have people around him asking for his attention all the time. One Friday night,

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