I remember my third-grade teacher, because she was such a nasty bitch. Really hated kids, to the point she was definitely in the wrong profession.
I barely remember any of my elementary school teachers.
I remember that one of my teachers in 1-4 grade was named Jones. I think first, but it might have been second. I have just shared the majority of what I remember about my primary school teachers. (I don’t remember the names of most of my middle, high, or college teachers, either. I would recognize the name if shown a yearbook, but that’s not the same thing.)
I remember my third grade teacher, Miss Bird. She was a mean old bitch, but one day I told her there was a tyger in the bathroom and she didn’t believe me…
My kindergarten teacher in 1974 was Mrs Groeschell. My first grade teacher was Mrs Anderson. Second grade, Mrs Sinclair, and she was horrible and cruel. Third grade, Mrs Briggs. Fourth grade, Mr Lester. Etc.
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I have vague memories of my 2nd, because she was mean, and no memories of my 3rd.
I clearly remember my teachers from grades 1 and 2. But 3-6 are all kinda scrambled up.
I barely remember my son’s third grade teacher and I take him to third grade every day
Depends on what you mean by “remember” - do I remember details about the teachers, what kind of personality they had , etc.? No. But I remember the name of every teacher I had for homeroom or academic classes from kindergarten till eight grade. ( I remember two gym teachers and one music teacher - there may have been more)
I’m bad with names, I can remember one name for K-5 and a few details of him from 4th and the teachers I had in 5th. For 2nd, all I remember is how she humiliated a student who, looking back, almost certainly had dyslexia.
I’m bumping this because, I saw a YT clip of top King short stories and The Jaunt was among them. Towards the end of that particular clip the narrator queried as to whether, were teleportation possible, people would say ‘NO’. I laughed cause i also immediatly said “NOPE Not me. Noooope.”".
But then it occurred to me…we never see on Star Trek people absolutely refusing to use the transporters. We see people resistant to the idea, but thats based on ‘unnaturalness’ or ‘fear of an accident.’
We never see people flat out refuse cause they think its just fancy duplication and the real me has been disintegrated. And I don’t think there’s any way to prove it isn’t.
I have to believe that at that point in the future, anyone flat out refusing to use transporters would be treated akin to ‘anti-vaxxers’. I’m sure Starfleet wouldn’t even allow someone to join if they refused to use the things, but I don’t think out of a billion episodes we’ve ever seen even an alien diplomat insist on a shuttle cause he refuses to use a transporter.
Getting back to The Jaunt if it wern’t for the flourish of white hair and other physical changes…as mentioned above there would be no way to prove that EVERYONE goes through the ‘awake jaunt’ but the unconscious ones forget it.
At a meta level, the writers can hardly admit that it’s a suicide booth, or it would turn the Federation into a society of mass murderers. Hence they don’t ask the question in the stories. The duped Riker (plus the inherent behavior of the transporters) is the only indication otherwise.
Having given it more thought…I SUPPOSE the events of “Turnabout Intruder” (Of all ****ing episodes) strongly infers that transportation and not replication is occurring. In that episode Kirk’s actual soul is transferred into another person. Then both people beam up. It would have been quite a shock to Lester and Kirk to arrive on the Enterprise back in their bodies. “Oh shittt…this means…oh shit”
On another note. The device used in that episode is yet another in a long line of galaxy shattering finds in TOS that would have scientists and philosophers testing it for decades.
I think they’d be more akin to people who are afraid to travel in airplanes. More quirky than anti-science. They just don’t get to go certain places. I imagine that a huge percentage of earth never travel into space just like now where a lot of people have no interest in visiting other places.
In Picard Season one…Picard had a doctor friend who made some weird cryptic comments about “Jean-Luc going back out there. Back into the cold and the dark”
So yeah…that guy definitely seemed to fit what you were describing.
I remember a couple snippets of my grade 1-4 teachers, and one name (but not which grade(s) she taught).
For real horror, King should have had a character enter it with a migraine headache.
…and an urgent need to pee.
That is genius, so many possibilities. Maybe an OCD sufferer who thinks they left the gas on gets pushed in while conscious…