Re: Queen Moms who use people as their "project"

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since i've been working as a teacher, i've met so many adults that

have weird control issues with children that it's just alarming. i

just treat them like small rational beings and they seem to

appreciate it.

i've also noticed that when people hear that i'm teaching, they

assume that it's an altruistic thing that i'm doing. i don't feel

like that at all. sure, it's definitely a good thing, but i feel

like there are economic and social issues on the horizon that will

only be worsened if the divide between the rich and the poor

continues to increase. i feel like my job is actually to shore up

the future middle class, which is good for my students (because i

know for sure that they are completely capable of excelling in their

studies, whether they're in remediation or not) as well as the rest

of the population.

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> My mother was a teacher too, same as you've described. She would

sometimes have students that she really couldn't stand and would talk

about them a lot...now that I process that, it's strange...I'm a

teacher now and I wouldn't do that, or I might describe bad behavior

of a student, but not think of the student as bad. Okay, random

aside. Anyway, my mother also had problems with administration to

the point where she eventually was 'fired' from her job. Now you

have to do something pretty extreme to get fired from that school

board because the union is very strong, so I'm not sure what exactly

happened. Normally if you are having problems in the classroom, they

will move you to an administrative job. But whatever took place, my

mother left and retired. She now lives on the other side of the

country (actually, the country next door), which is fine with me.

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