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231. →Husband Journey: 107 to 118 — 8 Comments

  1. I love reading your awesome updates, seasoned with the past. It must bring some calm to you as your recall Robert’s achievements. Keep them coming. Prayers for you both.

  2. When teachers are suspended, they would be assigned to sit in a room at some Board of Education office building. Every time the Daily News reports that there are a considerable number of teachers doing nothing in these rooms, the Board of Ed decides to do something. So one of those times, Robert was assigned to an office that no longer existed. A colleague of his who worked in the same building as our staff development center told us about Robert and suggested that he might be assigned to our center so Robert ended up with us. I did not know him very well and certainly did not know if he was a good teacher. One day I went with him to pick up his pay check at the school where he had most recently taught at. Even though he hadn’t been there for over a year or even maybe two, kids ran up to him and asked him when he was coming back. One boy who ran up to Robert was the brother of one of his former students asking when he would be back. I can’t imagine many teachers who would have received this type of what was almost adulation. On that day, I learned that Robert was not only a good teacher but that he was an exceptional one.

  3. Sitting, staring at my keyboard. Robbed by sorry of the ability to respond. You and Robert have fought “the good fight” and “raged against the dying of the light.” And there is yet another day and another battle to endure and survive.

  4. What a great story! It was Bob to a T, and at least later in life sans the BOE, he could truly utilize his talents as an educator. He was one of the best I know, and the students in Manhattan benefitted from his brilliance. 107? Oh no! Hang in there. Hugs to you and somehow, to Bob. Love YOU!

  5. I wish I had met him. But alas. I left NYC. Flew the coop for all the wrong reasons. So clever and brilliant!

    And how are you? Are you all vaccinated up so you can now go visit him?

    Sending love 💕

  6. So clever of Robert but how did he win? Diane macaluso and I plus a SW won a grievance when they wanted to remove us from our placement to put a Chinese team in our stead.,We got statistics showing that there were few referrals for Chinese students and very few parents required translation, etc but I think we won because we said, You don’t have to be Jewish to ”love levy’s rye bread and you don’t have to be Chinese to help Chinese students.”

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