Teacher Timidity

There is a stereotype of schoolteachers as timid, conservative, and unworldly. I'm not sure how they can be thought of that way when they are constantly surrounded by teenagers, but I guess it's the same way all parents are "square."

Anyway, I thought I would contribute to busting the myth by noting that on this day in 1859 the very first person went over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She was Annie Decker, a teacher from Michigan.

There, busted a few sterotypes with that one.