Is that roller coaster scary? No way! Is this pizza topping good? Yes, it’s the best! If you’ve really liked or disliked something, based on your previous experience, that is called personal judgment, and personal judgment happens in ‘Miss Awful’.
In today’s short story, ‘Miss Awful’, the main character, Roger Clark, has a very nice teacher called Mrs. Wilson, who does whatever the kids in her kids want to do. Then, one day, a substitute teacher comes, called Ms. Orville, who is more stricter than Mrs. Wilson, and the kids in the class all think she is a witch. However, in the end, Roger figures out she is just doing her job, and it is Mrs. Wilson that is the worse teacher.
I belive that Ms. Orville, wrongly named ‘Ms. Awful’, is actually the better teacher. This is because Mrs. Wilson is not preparing the kids for their adulthood, and instead making them feel like they are the ones that always make the decisions. On the other hand, Miss Orville has stricter rules, but is very helpful to the students because they are forcing themselves to do their work well, since they fear in retaliation Ms. Orville will do something bad to them. Before, the class was a mess, the desks were everywhere, the students’ clothes were rumpled, and the class wasn’t good at all. In a few days, Miss Orville changed all that. They were at military standard, marching in straight lines, their clothes were neatly tucked, and the classroom looked way better than before. If Mrs. Wilson had continued to teach them, they would have never gotten the effect of school that other kids with better teachers were getting.
To recapitulate, I think that Miss Awful should be renamed Miss Amazing, since she is the actual one who is helping the kids. I had a stricter teacher in the third grade, and, that year my academics got really good. I figured out that if you behave well, strict teachers can still have fun with students at a better level.