DRAWING

NAME

LOCATION

STORY

Eva

Breda, Noord Brabant

I have two things I still remember that my teachers did! Is that Okay?

One time in high school we went with the entrire class to the tweede kamer in Den Haag. When we where there we saw Jesse Klaver. My teacher just called him! Waved to him like a friend. He came over and talked with us teenagers! It was a very cool experince.

The other memorie I have is right after the American election in 2016. The day after Donald Trump became president.
Instead of the normal class, our teacher said to us that there are more important things going on in the world right now! He just cancelled the class!
Our teacher explained the election proces in America. We learned a lot. The rest of the class hour we where able to voice our opinions and talk with each other.
I think this is one I will remember forever.

This is teacher Schilder, in year 8. I started having English lessons in year 7. Those where very rear because of a burn-out my teacher was struggling with that year. Schilder was a good at teaching, and I started loving the English language. And Schilder saw my fascination as well. It was the first time that I liked a subject, I usually was always looking for a way out of theory lessons. He was excited for me and started encouraging me on learning English. I loved it. Then in secondary school he moved jobs and became my English teacher again. I liked it so much. And because of him encouraging me, my love for England started to grow. He has definitely played a role in me moving to England for 1,5 year.

Rosa

Emmeloord, Flevoland

I drew mister Paulsgraaf, my civics teacher in 4th year secondary school. He was always a very modest, serious teacher and not a single trace of expression visual at all time. This one time we we’re playing around during class and it made him furious. He couldn’t control his feelings anymore and trew his book away in the face of a girl on the first row. He was always in control, what made this happening very fascinating. Everyone made fun of him afterwards, but I thought it was quite amazing. I understood his frustration and him setting his boundaries was very inspiring.

David

Gouda, Zuid-Holland

Bart

Goes, Zeeland

This is miss Baaiens. She was amazing because she made me travelled to a different world by her teaching. She taught French, but she triggered my creativity the most with her exercises. I loved her, she inspired her profession. She spoke French at all time to everyone. The exercises she came up with where amazing. For example, she transformed the classroom to a French camping where we pretended to be on holiday. Also, she made my class pretend to live in a flat together and we had to write a diary. When we had to make a test, she would come walking by with a banquette and spread and handed these out. I loved it. She was always beaming positive energy.

I wasn’t feeling very well during her class. My teacher noticed it. I was struggling quite a bit during that time. She came up to me. She wasn’t the type of teacher to make a personal connection. She’s quite strict. I wasn’t expecting her to come up to me. She told me; the biggest life lesson I've learned so far is that life has its all-time lows. For a little while it will be better, but you’ll move back to a low again. It will always swing in between. But when you look at that line, you’ll see that your lows will be less low every single time! I still think of this a lot! .

Middelharnis, Zuid-Holland

Madeleine

This is me and teacher Dan. I hated him. He was my teacher for two years in a row and that was horror. It was snowing, and I trew a snowball at the face of teacher Dan. My heart was racing of excitement and for a reason because it made him furious. I didn’t think it through that well, I just hated him. He tried to catch me by tracing me, but I was way quicker on the feet. I hid myself because I was so afraid but had to go back inside at some point. He still hadn’t given up his search for me and found out where I was hidden. He dragged me along inside.

Zwolle, Overijssel

Ruben

I walked into school this one morning. The headmaster was standing next to the entrance. He was checking on the girl's skirts, to see if they’re of a decent length. My skirt wasn’t decently enough, and he send me to his office. There was a row of girls in front of his office waiting. After he’d collected enough girls, we had to come in one by one. He closed the door behind me. He stood in front of me and stared at my legs and skirt. I’ve been sent to his office for like 3 times for this reason. Sometimes I had to sit on my knees to see if my skirt would reach the floor.

IJsselmuiden, Overijssel

Anne

A strict German teacher where you always had to cover the word with a piece of paper and go through word for word. But if you start at the top, it becomes more and more difficult to remember, because you always go through the paper word for word. Then he pointed to me and I had forgotten the word, so I had to stay in detention

Vorden,
Gelderland

Sander

When I was in elementary school, a teacher also gave me guitar lessons after school. I found it very difficult. But he was just my favorite teacher. He made me feel like a real person. That I could achieve anything. I felt so strong because of him. That I could take on the world. When something didn't work out, he tried to teach me in a positive way.

Frank

Vorden,
Gelderland

I've always had trouble writing. I just can't write properly. This started already in primary school and was not over in secondary school. During German lessons we had to write something once. We had to hand that in. But she couldn't read it properly. She also showed this clearly to me and the rest of the class. She shouted angrily at me: CAN'T YOU BUY A LAPTOP ?? at least you can write neatly. This sentence is still in my head because I felt so belittled ...

Aalten,
Gelderland

Yorick

Ellen

Zutphen,
Gelderland

When I was in the second year of secondary school, we had to choose our exam subjects. What did I want to graduate in? I was a girl who did a lot for school, but certain factors made it impossible. Basically, I was no higher than a 6 for each subject. When I asked the biology teacher if biology was for me, I quickly got the answer. No! not for you! Do you think you are going to choose that profession. This sentence has always stayed with me. The teacher never even gave me a chance.

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Arthur

Kinderdijk,
Zuid-holland

24 year old men.

When I was younger and went to school the teachers always gave me grades. But it was always good or not good. I didn't liked that. I wanted to make things and learn stuff without getting a grade for it.

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