Moni and I were driving home from the East side of Tucson and she asked me if I was interested in visiting a jewelry store to look at wedding rings. She didn't think I would, but I said yes.
We went to Trinity Jewelers and found wedding bands we both liked. We bought them and were filling out the paper work and the sales lady said her son, Nick, had a teacher with the last name Floore.
Moni asked her where her son went to school when his teacher was a Mr. Floore.
She said Copper Creek. Moni told her this, Bill, he is the Mr. Floore your son had.
She talked for the next fifteen minutes about how wonderful that class was. She raved. She remembered details from almost 20 years ago. She remembered the vocabulary tests that had 160 questions.
She remembered the day her son tried to stay home from school and that was the day we were having an assembly for Duncan Yo Yo's and the kids could buy one. She made her son walk to school that day and by the time he got there the assenbly for Yo Yo's was over. Her son wanted one for Christmas. She called and had me buy her son one, and she didn't tell him she bought one, and she didn't give it to him until Christmas.
She told us how her son had difficulty with his secord grade teacher so she home schooled him for third grade.
She got a call from the principal, Mrs. Kelly, who told her she had hired a new teacher who she thought would be perfect for her son if she would enroll him in the fourth grade multiage class.
That was my first year teaching at Copper Creek. That was the 2002 - 2003 school year.. Her son is 28 now.
She said that those were his only good days ever in public school. What a nice conversation for all of us.
A few weeks later I went to Trinity on my own and I ordered an engagement ring. Moni loves it.
End of story.
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