Carlos Medina is a teacher at East New York Transit Tech High School, a public High School in Brooklyn, NY. He is best known for his perfect attendance and for his award "For Diligence In Maintaining A Positive School Tone". Carlos lists his heroes as Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and Che Guevera, and he is a proud communist. Carlos also likes to act very tough, and frequently holds up his fists while threatening to give someone the "Rocky and Bullwinkle" Although nobody knows exactly what this is supposed to mean, the consensus is that it is some code used by MS-13 gangmembers.

Carlos was one of the participants in the "Medina-Vernile Classic", a 1-on-1 basketball match between himself and George Vernile. The game ended in a 12-12 tie when Vernile blew out his knee on a phantom foul by Medina.

Medina, who has been called "low man on the totem pole" by Vernile, is constantly stressed about being excessed after the year. This is due to his teaching of non-regents classes and special ed math. Furthermore, when Medina finally took a day off on March 14th, 2007, his 8th period broke into a near riot. The administration did not look favorably upon Medina for this incident. According to Vernile, Medina is on the verge of getting excessed.

Carlos Medina's background is quite humble, to say the least. He was born in a barn in El Salvador in the town of #17 (please note: extremely impoverished towns in El Salvador were given number designations instead of names, which were pending)in 1980. Medina, called "The Fister" by his friends, collected empty bullet jackets to help raise money to move to the United States in 1999. He put himself through college by swapping the floors at Peep Show outlets in New York, New York, and also did street dancing to pay for books at Washington Square Park in Downtown Manhattan. In 2006, he graduated college and began his life long dream of becoming an educator where he has perfected the "word splash" teaching technique.

Medina's most recent accomplishment as an Educator involves the professional integration of history and retail commerce, in which he had his students take a trip to Costco to watch their highly educated pedagogue stock endless amounts of rectal tissues on all shelves, even the top shelf, which required a lift. When he was done with this task, he asked his students "How is working at a wholesale/retail outlet, related to the accomplishments of the Maya?" The students struggled with his query, luckily though, Medina's co-teacher, Mr. "M", intervened, and asked "What happened here 40 years ago today?" A barrage of responses spued from the mouths of Medina's young eager learners, however, their responses were not what Mr. M. expected. Medina, showing courage and intelligence quickly intervened. He took off his glasses, raised his brow, and said, "You all must leave now, I still have to stock plungers."


Medina and the Carebears

Medina is also well known for his fondness of the Carebears. The first day he finally took off the entire school year was not because he was sick, but because there was a Carebear marathon on the Oxygen Channel. Medina's favorite bear is "Tenderheart Bear" (see http://www.care-bears.com/CareBears/html/about/tenderheart.html) but he also is a fan of "Love-a-lot Bear" (see http://www.care-bears.com/CareBears/html/about/lovealot.html) "Funshine Bear" (see http://www.care-bears.com/CareBears/html/about/funshine.html) and "Harmony Bear" (see http://www.care-bears.com/CareBears/html/about/harmony.html) Medina is such an avid fan that he once declared "Care Bears: Land of Enchantment" (http://www.amazon.com/Care-Bears-Land-Enchantment/dp/B0006UTN5C/ref=sr_1_6/104-8358092-8224734?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1174866908&sr=1-6) to be the greatest DVD ever made.

Medina Update

Recently Medina has been continuously Punk'd by his fellow teacher Mr. Chisholm aka "Young Cheezy" Among these insults were two documents regarding Medina's purported coummunist affiliations, and a number of fist pound disses. Medina has yet to respond, indicating that he has either taken his beloved Carebear message to heart, or he is just soft. Medina has simply lowered himself to making lame jokes about Chisholm reloading the stapler. Fellow teachers are wondering if this cocky Salvadorean has finally met his match.

Medina Text Messages

Medina is known for his level 9 text messaging ability. He has a QWERTY keyboard phone and is constantly seen texting his teenage friends. Every so often fellow teacher Kevin O'Brien will be inundated with with texts from Medina. For example, on Sunday, April 8th at 6:43pm Medina sent the following text: "yo what did u do with the essays for h2?" Medina is clearly aiming for a Rookie Of The Year award from Transit Tech administrators.


Sources: Jennings, Tom. One Teacher in 11 (2006)

Kevin, Elizabeth A Boy I Once Knew: What a Teacher Learned from his Student (2003)


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