Po's Peek at the Past By .........By Dave Potchak

As I think back over the many incidents that took place in the education field during my tenure, I'm reminded of the following:

The awards assembly

Once during the middle-school achievement awards assembly, a teacher started to read the names of students who had earned BUG Awards. She started out by saying, "For those of you who may not know, B-U-G stands for students who have brung up (their) grades."

The spelling bee

And earlier that year, the teacher in charge of administering the middle-school spelling bee contributed a real gem of a flub one day in the same auditorium.

The word which a co...