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>When you pay your school tax, you should be issued tickets. You go to the teacher you want to teach your child and give that teacher the ticket and each ticket is worth income to the teacher.

The best teachers aren't always immediately likable. I had some teachers who were likable on the surface, pretty or whatever, who didn't know much and weren't good at conveying what they knew. I had others who were crusty, almost offputting, who turned out to be sensational teachers. Truly game changers in my life.

The guy who epitomizes that to me was (he's surely deceased by now) Charles I. Thayer, who was my teacher in 5th and 6th grades. It was a so-called accelerated class consisting of 10 fifth graders and 10 sixth graders from the city of Bangor, Maine. Lord knows why they put me in there but they did. Mr. Thayer was a demanding teacher, to say the least. From the first day he set the bar very high for us and he didn't take any excuses. You were going to give him your best work or he could wash you back into the general system. I gave him my best work and still remember some of the things I learned in his classroom. The first day we were all 10 or 11, about that. He had written a quotation from Shakespeare on the blackboard: "This above all, to thine own self be true, and then as the night follows the day thou canst not be false to any man." That was pretty heady stuff for a 10 year old.