ALL the kids LOVE Ms. Lowery. I wonder why??
Something tells me that no one in Brenham will be nominating Ms. Lowery for Teacher of the Year...except perhaps for her students.
NOVEMBER 13--Meet Shelly Lowery. The 28-year-old high school English teacher was throwing a rowdy little house party early Sunday morning when neighbors called police with a noise complaint. When cops arrived at Lowery's Texas home, they found seven teenagers (including kids aged 14 and 15) partying with teach, whose living room was strewn with open beer cans, according to this Brenham Police Department report. And, in a homey touch, a pornographic video had been playing on the television. Lowery, who was hit with misdemeanor charges of furnishing alcohol to minors and displaying harmful material to her underage guests, was released from the Washington County Jail after posting bond. Not surprisingly, the local school district has suspended Ms. Lowery, though she will continue receiving a paycheck.
For attempting to broaden the horizons of her students in all the wrong ways, Ms. Lowery has amply demonstrated her worthiness of the heady recognition connoted by her DUMASS AWARD. The police report speaks to Lowery's ground-breaking teaching methods, but work like hers often goes unrecognized and unappreciated- until now. If there's any justice, she'll soon be teaching somewhere in the Texas correctional system.
