A Day in the Life of Ms. Grundy

So this is New Years’. And what have you done? Another year over- and a new one just begun.
Truly, 2023 comes with mixed feelings after a 2022 that returned some “normal,” but also some obsolete we wished would stay subdued forever. It’s not easy to compare our relief at the lifting of emergency measures with our stress at the looming exams, nor is it fair to choose between our joy to celebrate with others and our horror at the terror striking across other parts of the world. Still, we can be grateful that we have each other, through the good and the bad, and there’s no one better to reassure us of that than the teacher whose lessons are for life and whose life is a long, delightful lesson.

Bubbly and bright, Ms. Grundy is everything you might dream your chemistry experiment to be. The flip side to her humour is her love of pure education; you, her students, who are her experiment. Whether taste-testing chem cookies, jumpscaring children with bonus questions in 40-minute quests, or offering sticker rewards for unit review Kahoots, Ms. Grundy definitely knows how to engage as a teacher. By the end of “A Day in the Life of Ms. Grundy,” however, you may just see past the chem puns, through the anime and video game references, and into an extraordinary woman and human Mackenzie is honoured to call our own.