Allan Carbee
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Overview[edit]
Allan Carbee is currently a technology education teacher at Waterford High School in Waterford, CT[1]. Students admire Carbee for his great storytelling, inspirational speeches, and enjoyable classes. These characteristics have led to the nickname "Carbee the Goat" or similar titles being used when referring to him. While some students simply take his classes because of their relative ease, those that understand how great of a teacher he really is end up learning much more from him than they do from any other teacher. Furthermore, students enjoy being able to do the assignments he posts at their leisure, which usually require a maximum of just 20 minutes anyway. When the students are not listening to one of his fascinating stories or working on a project, they often find themselves playing 2048, Carbee's favorite computer game. Although he doesn't usually address the class as a whole other than in the beginning of the semester, Carbee loves to walk around the class and engage all of his students in conversations.
While teaching is Carbee's profession and passion, he also flips houses in his free time to make some extra money. Carbee knew that he wanted to be a teacher for a very long time, but he found himself in various other workplaces and jobs in the past. These past job experiences only make his words more valuable to the high school students, many of whom are just beginning to work. Additionally, these experiences have given him many great stories to tell his students, such as "House Hustle" (see below).
Through his childhood, Carbee gained many experiences and stories that made him the person he is today. Part of that came from his relationship with his friends and families, including brother Brian Carbee. Brian Carbee is a movie writer best known for his writing the movie Accidents Happen. [2]
In the sections below, some of Carbee's most notable stories and inspirational speeches are described in detail. While Carbee has admitted that some of his stories are not based entirely on fact, they are enjoyable nonetheless.
Carbee's Greatest Stories[edit]
Larry Bird[edit]
Carbee's story about Larry Bird is easily his most known and talked about story at Waterford High School.
This story is set in French Lick, Indiana (Bird's hometown)[3], during the summer of 1967. At the time, Bird was only eleven years old, but his already colossal stature made him appear much older. Carbee, on the other hand was seventeen years old, and he had gone to spend the summer at his grandparents' house in Indiana. To pass the time, Carbee found himself at the neighborhood basketball court every day–as did the eleven year old Larry Bird. Carbee describes the young version of Larry Bird as a tall and skillful, but surprisingly somewhat quiet and reserved. This would take many fans of Bird by surprise as he gained a reputation of being one of the greatest trash talkers in NBA history.
Despite Carbee being six years older than Bird, Larry was a fair amount taller and more muscular than him. As the two saw each other nearly every day that summer, they ended up challenging each other to pickup games frequently. Hilariously, Carbee recalls losing every basketball-related competition he ever engaged in with Larry Bird. No matter the game–1v1, horse, around the world, bank–the prodigious Larry Bird beat Carbee relentlessly. One might expect Carbee to be discouraged by the fact that he was getting smoked by an eleven year old literally every day, but his daily return to the neighborhood basketball court models Carbee's persistence and fearlessness. Of course, Carbee had no idea he was playing against a future hall-of-fame NBA player, but Bird's incredible skill was enough to make his name stick in Carbee's head forever. When Bird was picked in the 1978 NBA Draft[4], Carbee soon heard about it and realized it was indeed the same kid that used to clap him up on the daily.
It is clear why Carbee enjoys to tell this story so much, but the unbelievable details have led most students to call cap. After all, what are the chances that Larry Bird really played with their tech ed teacher for an entire summer? However, when students poke fun at Carbee about it saying, "we know it's cap, Carbee" or "it's okay, you can tell us", he insists that the story is true. His usual reply is, "It had to be somebody playing against Larry Bird. Why not me?". Either way, the students have the respect the fact that Carbee either actually played against Larry Bird or that he took a lot of time to make the details of the story line up.
Judo Champ[edit]
Although Carbee clearly was not prodigy in basketball as he literally couldn't beat a kid that hadn't hit puberty yet, he was excellent in judo. In high school,
Math Wizard[edit]
Although Carbee was no model student in high school, he was excellent in math. He may have got his fair share of D's and F's from his other classes like English and History, but he always got A's in math. Even without putting a lot of effort into school, Carbee had above average ability in all math subjects.
When he got to college, Carbee, along with all other students enrolled in his math course had to take the College Level Mathematics Pretest. The test consisted of 100 questions, and it was known to be thorough and difficult, even for the professors. When the professors first took this particular exam, none of them were able to achieve a perfect or even near perfect score. Carbee effortlessly finished the exam while his peers struggled. When the results were posted, his name was at the top of the list with a perfect 100/100. Shockingly, the next highest score was an 83/100. As a student that was not particularly studious in high school had just gotten a far better score than all of the other students, the administrators could not believe their eyes. What's even crazier is that none of the professors had been able to match his feat.
Naturally, the administrators assumed he had cheated on the test. While Carbee would be willing to admit to cheating if he had done it now, some 50 years later, he insists that he did not. Simply stated, none of the questions on the exam had been able to fool Carbee, and he had truly outperformed all of the college professors. When the administrators gave up hopeless on their mission to find out how he cheated, they acknowledged that they were in the presence of one of the most competent math students they had even seen. His professors encouraged him to pursue a degree in Mathematics as he had the potential to be one of the greatest math geniuses the world had ever seen.
Even though Carbee had always been a prolific math student, he was not particularly interested in the subject. He got A's in math because the subject came easy to him, not because he enjoyed putting the work into it. He savagely denied the professors' suggestion to pursue a math career and stated, "I want to be a teacher." Even so, Carbee did not want to be a mathematics teacher. As you know, he went on to ditch the field of mathematics and become a technology education Teacher.
House Hustle[edit]
Business Endeavors[edit]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Our Staff Directory". whs.waterfordschools.org. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ↑ Lancaster, Andrew (2010-04-22), Accidents Happen (Comedy, Drama), Geena Davis, Harrison Gilbertson, Harry Cook, Joel Tobeck, Red Carpet Productions, Abacus Film Fund, Head Gear Films, retrieved 2021-04-07
- ↑ "Legends profile: Larry Bird | NBA.com". www.nba.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
- ↑ "1978 NBA Draft". Basketball-Reference.com. Retrieved 2021-04-07.
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