After spending half an hour Monday instilling much-needed confidence in one of her most timid freshmen, Sam Barlow High School English teacher Karen Norgren, 48, expressed her desire to one day inspire one of the school's more popular students. 'It would be nice, just once, to make a real, lasting impression on a confident, athletic student with tons of friends,' said Norgren, who has reportedly grown tired of encouraging 'dowdy old Phil Van' every day after fourth period. 'Someone like Jason Feightner, for instance. He's got that cool, devil-may-care attitude. Guys want to be him, and girls want to be with him. Why can't I push him to reach his full potential?' Norgren then reportedly waited around in the senior parking lot in case Whitney Olsen or some of her friends wanted to chat about Things Fall Apart. 