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'Remember, it's about the kids'
Published: 5/23/2011 3:13 PM
Last Modified: 5/23/2011 4:17 PM

As I hope y'all will read in Tuesday's Scene section of the Tulsa World, I posed the same list of questions to three teachers retiring from Holland Hall this year: Kay Holt, Ron Palma and Doug Bromley.

Here are two questions we didn't get into the story:

What will you miss most about teaching?

Bromley: "The intellectual and social contact on a daily basis with the amazing colleagues I leave behind. The joy and satisfaction of watching a student have that 'Ah-ha!' moment when he suddenly realizes that he understand a piece of physics."

Holt: "My colleagues! I have spent the last 22 years teaching with the most incredible, innovative and energized group of teachers. We have solved all the world's problems and taught school at the same time."

Palma: "That's easy -- daily interaction with students and colleagues. I will miss experiencing all the agonies and ecstasies of working with modern American high school students. High school is a memory factory, and I have had the privilege of participating in the formation of those memories. I will miss the intellectual engagement that accompanies the belief that teaching is a shared learning experience.

What will you miss the least?

Bromley: "I will not miss getting up at 6 a.m., and I will not miss grading lab reports. I think in 41 years, I have heard every possible attempt to explain the refraction of light in water."

Holt: "The thing I will miss the least is playground duty on cold, windy Oklahoma winter days."

Palma: "Finding a balance between one's personal and professional life is difficult for all teachers. I would like to offer here a word of encouragement to all who teach. During these dark days, when the teaching profession has come under attack from various directions, remain stout-hearted. If you find your inspiration disappearing, pick up a copy of Frank McCourt's "Teacher Man" or Parker Palmer's "The Courage to Teach." Remember, it's about the kids!"

Peace, love and awesome teachers ... XOXO

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breckwood (last year)

I guess Jason went to Tulsa Public Schewls caz he caint shpell either.

Tulsa World Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright (last year)

Nice one, Breckwood.

8sd93 (last year)

These teachers are America's actual cultural "treasures." They carry the real American legacy of training children into what our country wants to be.

It should not be forgotten, that at one time, our American culture had the vision to produce people like these teachers for public schools. Producing people like Holt, Bromley and Palma for all American children used to be the actual goals of public officials and legislators. This is what legislators used to spend their time on.

senor notas (last year)

I know Doug Bromley and Ronald Palma as former colleagues. Both are great teachers and persons. The teaching profession and Holland Hall will miss them. By the way, Jason, in the TW story home edition you had Tim Nelson as Tim Black Nelson. It is Tim Blake Nelson as anyone who taught that talented young man at Holland Hall, knows. Maybe not your oops, but and editor?
Good story.

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While other kids were watching "The Smurfs," Scene Writer Jason Ashley Wright was tuned in to "Style with Elsa Klensch." By fourth grade, he knew he wanted to write, and spent almost three years publishing a weekly teen-oriented magazine, Teen-Zine -- circulation: 2. After earning a degree in journalism from the University of Southern Mississippi, he became the medical reporter and teen board coordinator for the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a Gannett newspaper. Eight months later, with visions of Elsa dancing in his head, he applied for the fashion writer position at the Tulsa World, where he began working on Aug. 3, 1998. He is now a general assignment reporter for Scene.

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