Slideshow: Carrie Badger, Queen of Worksheets

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

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Multimedia presentation by Tony Tye and L.A. Johnson
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Carrie Badger gives tons of homework, happily calling herself the "Queen of Worksheets."

Still, routinely there's a list of students waiting to get into her Carlynton High School chemistry classes.

Let that marinate in the brain for a moment. A list of students waiting to get into chemistry classes.

"Mrs. Badger does a great job of telling us how to do stuff and making us understand," said Scott Szuhay , a junior in her Advanced Placement chemistry class. "It's a big workload, but it's a challenge and I enjoy it."

On this particular day, students are calculating the rate laws for potassium permanganate and oxalic acid -- determining how changing the concentration of chemicals affects the speed of a reaction between the chemicals, Mrs. Badger explains.

"If she knows the class doesn't understand something, she'll devote the time until the class does understand," said Scott. "I mean, she won't stop until she knows everybody gets it."

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First published on February 14, 2007 at 12:00 am