I Am a Teacher, and I Was a Terrible Student

Matthew Thiele
4 min readMar 10, 2022

To be fair, I had some terrible teachers.

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Every time I have difficulties with a student, my mind takes me back to when I was a student. Here is karma kicking you.

In high school Latin class, I climbed out of a ground-floor window during class just to see if I could get away with it. I hadn’t thought ahead. That window opened onto a kind of courtyard with…

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Matthew Thiele

Teacher. Satirist. Scholar. Published in Slackjaw, Points in Case, McSweeney’s, Ben Jonson Journal, and elsewhere. Definitely not a representative of GSU.