Mr. Pittella
Braveheart came on the cable tv recently
rewatching movies these days I pull up the laptop. who directed this film? what was the budget to box office ratio? any quirky production or casting facts?
and what I came across for Braveheart is this:
one of the most historically inaccurate movies of all time
The dichotomy of this fact vs. my introduction to the film being in your sixth grade class was not lost on me, and the first question my mind asked itself was, What would Mr. Pittella say about all this fifteen years later?
Why did we watch Braveheart in your class?
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The other thing I remember about sixth grade was a kickball game against Mr. Nodelman's class.
We gambled in the currency of middle school: the losing class would have to buy the winning class pizza, and lots of it.
Pittella, you had us in lines doing jumping jacks outside their windows while they were studying. I remember.
we got weird, we psyched them out and we won.
we won bad and we ate their pizza.
Did Nodelman make his kids pay or did he ante up himself?*
The moral of the story is that you can't facilitate sixth graders gambling on a kickball game in America anymore. I'm glad we grew up in a different world and had that opportunity.
*I asked two friends from Nodelman's class:
The Dancer couldn't remember and she said "he hated me cause i called him mr. noodlebutt"
The Mailman said "I don't remember paying but I can't imagine Nodelman putting up the cash. I think you could say we had to pay."
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