NDR Mrs Shepard's Lesson

Todd Duncan Tennyson

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When I was in second grade at Hoover Elementary School in So Oregon, I had a teacher that was difficult.
Her name was Dora Mae Shepard.

She was an older gal and definitely did not like kids, at least not me, and I recall her growling at the entire classroom one day. She growled at me often and I was issued demerits frequently.



Maybe there was something that happened to her to make her so angry, and maybe I just didn't understand. I was only about 8 years old, so I could have misinterpreted something or mis read her.


I remember every morning she had us stand up, put our hands over our hearts, and say the Pledge of Allegiance.
After that we all sang "My country tis of thee."


Just the first component:
My country, 'tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty
Of thee I sing
;Land where my fathers died
,Land of the pilgrims' pride
,From ev'ry mountainside

Let freedom ring!



I hadn't really given it much thought until the last couple years, but now I think about it every day.

Maybe she wasn't entirely off track.
Maybe she was just angry with how things were in her world...
 
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