Just found out one of my favorite high school teachers died about a year ago. I always misspell Jim Pisacano's last name, so I went to go look it up and found... an obituary.
Goddamn it.
He was one of the MCST ("Micro Computer Software Technology") teachers at the technical high school I went to in the early 1990s. Big man, big booming voice. Smart, fun, "one of us" but still demanded and easily earned respect from everyone in his orbit.
I had a particularly rough time in high school, but he took me aside and really helped me work through things. He went above and beyond. He is very model of the kind of person who SHOULD be in charge: intelligent, friendly but no nonsense, honorable, and above all, compassionate.
Godspeed, man.
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nhregister/name/james-pisacano-obituary?id=56802960
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