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Mr. Johnny Walters - Bio
I've taught English in various formations since 1997. I began teaching English after two years of managing a retail store in New England. Prior to that, I earned a B.A. in philosophy & religion in 1994 from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. It promptly qualified me to attempt to cook hamburgers at Backyard Burger in Boone. I was summarily fired for being a terrible cook, and my hours were given to a guy named "Jeff." I retreated back into the comforts of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and left practical things like cooking decent food to others. I still haven't mastered the art of Backyard Burgering, and I still enjoy reading a bit of useless philosophy every now and again, especially Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
Fearing I would die before I, in the words of Horace Mann, "won a victory for humanity," in 1997 I left the Platonic cave of Abercrombie & Fitch retail for the strident sunlight of teaching. After pouring the likes of Charles Dickens, Sophocles, Sherwood Anderson, Albert Camus and Joseph Conrad down the throats of gagging high schoolers in New England, I sailed off into the blue waters of middle school, where I tossed and sloshed around a 7th grade language arts class for twelve years, pausing on the shores of North Carolina State University for a Master's degree. Enough was enough, I finally decided, and I moved back to the high school venue, where I am extremely happy each day, as long as I get my coffee.
I don't facebook (yes, I verbed that), but I do have a twitter twit: it's j0hnnywalters where the 0 is a zero, not a capital O. If you follow me, you will happily receive a twit each time I post something to our blog. Useful? You decide.
I've taught English in various formations since 1997. I began teaching English after two years of managing a retail store in New England. Prior to that, I earned a B.A. in philosophy & religion in 1994 from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. It promptly qualified me to attempt to cook hamburgers at Backyard Burger in Boone. I was summarily fired for being a terrible cook, and my hours were given to a guy named "Jeff." I retreated back into the comforts of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, and left practical things like cooking decent food to others. I still haven't mastered the art of Backyard Burgering, and I still enjoy reading a bit of useless philosophy every now and again, especially Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
Fearing I would die before I, in the words of Horace Mann, "won a victory for humanity," in 1997 I left the Platonic cave of Abercrombie & Fitch retail for the strident sunlight of teaching. After pouring the likes of Charles Dickens, Sophocles, Sherwood Anderson, Albert Camus and Joseph Conrad down the throats of gagging high schoolers in New England, I sailed off into the blue waters of middle school, where I tossed and sloshed around a 7th grade language arts class for twelve years, pausing on the shores of North Carolina State University for a Master's degree. Enough was enough, I finally decided, and I moved back to the high school venue, where I am extremely happy each day, as long as I get my coffee.
I don't facebook (yes, I verbed that), but I do have a twitter twit: it's j0hnnywalters where the 0 is a zero, not a capital O. If you follow me, you will happily receive a twit each time I post something to our blog. Useful? You decide.