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Mr. Bromley

My high school physics teacher died this week. The article does a good job of conveying his attitude about teaching, I think. Some of it sounds a little cheesy in the article, but he really was a good teacher and got everyone in the class to actually think about what we were learning. He was very well-liked by students, and I remember lots of discussion senior year trying to think of senior pranks and Mr. Bromley's name would come up as the person who might be willing to overlook something to assist us. When taking the SAT II Physics test I questioned if it would have been better for our physics class to have spent more time on the topics covered by that test instead of delving into issues about energy production and other topics, but long term I think there was more value in having participated in those discussions since I do still remember parts of them. I never do a good job really getting to know my teachers, but I do appreciate the ones that do a good job, and he was certainly one of them.