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Berger: ‘I did the best I could’

Monday, October 19th, 2009

Ask former Baltimore County Public School Superintendent Stuart Berger a question and you’ll get a straight answer.

Berger spent just over three years, from 1992 to 1995, running the county school system. His tenure is remembered more for the controversy that accompanied the changes he made, and a lack of any kind of tact, than the actual changes.

“If I think you’re an idiot for some reason, I feel the need to share that with you,” said Berger during a phone interview Monday. He added that the character trait was “probably something I should have learned to change.” (more…)

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So he became a farmer

Monday, October 19th, 2009

BartenfelderPeople who can, do — and those who can’t, teach. Or so goes the old adage. But what happens to those who give up teaching?

Apparently, they become farmers.

Or so goes the story as told by Don Mohler, who briefly spoke Thursday about Councilman Joseph Bartenfelder’s brief tenure as a teacher.

Bartenfelder taught from 1979 to 1981. The last year was spent as a long-term substitute at Chesapeake High School, in Essex, where he taught drafting and business (he was also involved in the family farm at the time). (more…)

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