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March 26, 2003
Respect, for a teacher
I have a tremendous respect for teachers. It's something I've had for a long time. I'd like to attribute it to my upbringing and the importance of education that was instilled in me then, even if I've forgotten some of the lessons since I left home. I share a house with a teacher, and I've seen her classroom. It's so different from any classroom I ever remembered being in. For one, it's an inner city classroom with a host of inner city problems that are just so remote from my suburban childhood and magnet school adolescence. The work and passion--that bears repeating, the WORK and PASSION--that these teachers have to put in to teach their kids and make ends meet under the ever present axe of state and federal governments that place unreasonable demands with little support and the threat of budgetary cuts is absolutely astounding.
And that makes this, this, and this account about one teacher's ordeal over a missing student of hers difficult to swallow. The world is indeed a hard and callous place.
Courtesy (indirectly) of Dazz, who had actually linked to a VSD of Osama bin Laden that was just below the above link.
Edited to account for LiveJournal's post nomenclature.
Posted by KinCross at March 26, 2003 12:56 AM