Better show your teacher some respect.
You never know when one of her kids will grow up to sit on the Supreme Court.
Such is the small-world case here, as this humble reporter discovered when President Obama chose NYC native Elena Kagan to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens.
A little searching through some old albums unearthed a picture: Gloria Kagan standing with her 11- and 12-year-old students at Hunter College Elementary School.
One of those sixth-graders was in the "small kids sit on the floor" category: Yes, yours truly.
And this week on News 4 New York, Chuck Scarborough asked about this coincidental judicial connection:
