It always amazes me we have hate-filled people in our town. I don’t personally know any of them, but their letters appear regularly.
Kathy Rios dressed down the paper’s “liberal” editor last week for supporting a cost-of-living adjustment for retired teachers. I would consider supporting people who gave much of their lives to support children “decency.”
Ms. Rios talks about the “current animosity between public schools and the public.” Is she referring the rabble that was screaming...
It always amazes me we have hate-filled people in our town. I don’t personally know any of them, but their letters appear regularly.
Kathy Rios dressed down the paper’s “liberal” editor last week for supporting a cost-of-living adjustment for retired teachers. I would consider supporting people who gave much of their lives to support children “decency.”
Ms. Rios talks about the “current animosity between public schools and the public.” Is she referring the rabble that was screaming at the last FISD school board meeting saying the board members were going to get eternal damnation for not totally removing 40 books from the school libraries? Keeping the books from their children wasn’t enough. They wanted them kept from all children.
I would call people who behave like that dangerous lunatics, but unfortunately, they don’t seem to operate only under a full moon. That type of people does not represent even one percent of the people of this county.
Teachers do a million things to teach “right and ’rong” no one would ever know about. I remember ordering new glasses one September. A student came up to me and was so proud he’d gotten glasses “exactly like Mr. Treibs.”
A student worked and saved to go on a student trip. Her mother spent the money. Teachers chipped in to replace the large sum of money. That trip might have been one of the highlights of her life.
All month, former students, their parents and others have been writing how my wife, Peggy, affected peoples’ lives, in and out of class. One person wrote how she helped at The Good Samaritan Center and a man said he would never have gotten his GED without pressure from Mrs. Treibs. I remember if students didn’t attend, she’d call them. She bought a red cap and gown for pictures of those who completed the course. There was also a party, of course.
One former student had gotten in a rebellious huff and walked off before his high school graduation years before. She contacted the high school, determined he qualified to graduate and she got him his high school diploma.
A woman said, “I never liked to read, now I love it, my children love to read and I trick my husband into reading articles.”
A girl came to class with a towel wrapped around her because her blouse was too small. Peggy drove home during her off period to get her clothes.
A woman almost shrieked in a restaurant and ran over and gave Peggy a bear hug. She said she would never have become a teacher if Peggy hadn’t taken her by the shoulders in seventh grade and told her not to listen to peers who pestered her not to study.
Ms. Rios may be relieved that Peggy is not going to cost her anything. After 45 years of teaching for years of supervising GED teachers in five counties, she passed away Aug. 2.
I don’t know what your desired effect was with your letter, but it made me cry.
Glen Treibs is a retired history instructor with the Fredericksburg Independent School District.