Steve Sherman

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Biography

History at SMES

Steve Sherman joined the SMES math department with the class of 2003. He was assigned to teach various Calculus related courses, coach the football team, and guide an unruly advisory of young men, somehow, to graduation. On these fronts he suceeded on one count, as well as what we will call a partial success with his advisory.

Classes taught

Sherman is one of the most experienced of the math teachers in Southern California having practiced his craft for going on 25 years. He specializes in AP Calculus and is so familiar with the material, that in all his years of teaching at SMES, he has been stumped by a students question only one time. The student was Whitney Duim-Quirk, sister of Sabrina Duim, and the question involved a tricky trigonemtric substitution integral. After staring at the problem for some five minutes, Mr. Sherman began to lose his patience, telling his class to "please quiet down" despite the fact that they were not making any noise. Eventually, Sherman caved and referred to an answer key for assistance, a broken man.

Sherman's classes are notoriously lively, full of bizarre impressions and fleeting double entendres. Some of Shermans favorite puns include saying "Let me throw up...(long pause)...some problems on the board" and quoting Shakespeare whenver the quantity 2b arises naturally through an algebra problem.

In the summer of 2001, Sherman taught a now-infamous summer school geometry class including Thomas Knight, Jay-Paul Spenuzza, Chase Rolls, and Anik Dang. During lunch breaks, the male students of this class would often congregate at the basketball hoops and play racially motivated pick-up games, with the "whites" squaring off against the "non-whites". On one occasion, Sherman agreed to play in the game, which he dominated. His decision, however, proved costly as he was forced to teach the second half of the class drenched in sweat.

Clubs involved in

Beginning in 1999 Sherman was assigned an advisory of young men consisting of:

David Smith, Justin Khalifa, Thomas Knight, Nick Brion, Max Mahaffa, Patrick Burke, Bobby Oakes, Jay-Paul Spenuzza, James Edwards.

Later Ninyus would join the group and Max Mahaffa would leave SMES.

As a group the advisory was amicable enough, though there was a clear rift between the so-called popular kids, and the confirmed losers. As such the advisory rarely interacted on a social level outside of the classroom.

But, every Thursday, for four years, they would meet at 11 am to eat donuts and watch one of two movies. The only movies ever watched by the advisory were The Running Man and Dumb and Dumber. It is estimated that over the course of four years they managed to watch the former twice and the latter an astounding five times. Once, in a an attempt to introduce some variety to the movie lineup Sherman brought in a copy of Fletch starring Chevy Chase. This change jarred the boys fragile minds, and the movie was quickly changed. A similar reaction greeted Sherman's showing of Left Behind: The Movie.

Contributions to SMES

Steve Sherman delivered the faculty address for the class of 2003 graduation dinner. It was an impressive freestyle rap which controversially poked fun at Katy Brandeis. Importantly the speech also kicked into motion a trend that would define every speech given during class of 2003 graduation events when he mocked Parisa Jassim. The Christian undertones prevalent in his speech reflected Sherman's well-known status as a born-again.

Reasons for leaving (if applicable)

Opinions on teacher, with attribution

External links

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