Bullies in the Classroom

We probably all have memories of our favorite teachers, the ones who inspired us and still make us smile years later.



And then there are the ones who are like Grendel at the banqueting hall in Beowulf, casting a long shadow. Like my fifth grade teacher who made that whole year hell for me and a lot of other students she didn't like for reasons I'll never know. There was one in this group whose last name was Greif (pronounced to rhyme with "knife"); he was argumentative and she kept caling him...