Steve Whiteman

Teaching Helped Make Me Crazy Steve Whiteman

Have you ever wished that you had written down all those stories that made you unique?Steve Whiteman's new book, Teaching Helped Make Me Crazy, takes his very unusual life and lets it spill across the pages. His stories span the emotional spectrum from hilarious to horrific. Teacher, Coach, Dean of Students, Principal, Steve Whiteman has done it all and seen it all. Spanning 47 years, Steve's career in education ranges from a rural one-room school house to being a NASA teacher, in locales as different as the Southern Ute Indian reservation and urban California. Starting in a time when school teachers were also social workers, life coaches and part time parents and the phrase political correctness had never been uttered, Steve gives us a peek at teaching throughout the years. Also included are poignant stories from his youth, as well as his current attempts at growing old gracefully. If you are looking for a fun read, try Darci's Cleavage, Steve's attempt at being the dress code Nazi. How about the detective work needed in the bitter dispute of Jeremiah Was a Bullfrog. Then try the sad tale of, The Bad Days. When Steve had to perform CPR on a dying student. In The Good Evaluation, his wife says, "Except for the stabbing, your evaluation looks good."Kick off your shoes, relax and prepare to laugh, be amazed, or cry at the tales Steve has to tell.