mY 5 favoritE complimentS froM studentS

James B., whose father was in jail for murder, said to me, "I want to get old and be crazy like you." 

Nicole said, "Mr. Kalb, I think you must be black."

A guy who might have been Robert L. came up to me on the senior walk and said, "I love you, man. Not in a gay way." 

Laura N. wrote me a note in which she said. "You made me a better person." 

Clare G. told the school librarian that I was "Jesus, Socrates and Monty Python rolled into one."