Welcome aboard the Story Ark! This week, Captain Kenny Mears navigates the currents of influence and impression. We all encounter people who leave their mark, for better or worse, and today's storyteller, Jeff Driggs, shares a humorous and insightful true story about a particularly memorable sixth-grade teacher, Mrs. Morris.

Join Jeff, President of the Utah Storytelling Guild, as he recounts the perplexing and sometimes exasperating methods of Mrs. Morris, a first-year teacher with "crazy ideas" about student accountability. From allowing students to choose their own seats and decorate their desks (leading to the invention of "Robinson Brockmire Jr.") to her baffling approach to classroom management, Mrs. Morris certainly left an impression.

You'll hear about Jeff's youthful alter ego, "Chauncey Dudley III," his entrepreneurial "Probl ...