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Re: teachers/respect

From: Mark Alexander (malexander06)
Date: Thu Mar 02 2000 - 20:06:49 PST

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    I understand your sentiments, Anna!

    I usually have kids in the art room and don't go up to the teacher's room
    for lunch. The free time I spend with them is such an inspiration! They're a
    real hoot!

    Anyway, one day this week many of the regulars art lunch kids were on a
    field trip, so I had an opportunity to eat with the other teachers. The
    conversation was about stuff like alcoholic parents rumored to be drinking
    again, judgmental talk about the character of a few at risk students, some
    disgraceful affair someone is having...all sorts of stuff I realized I could
    do without. I realized...again...that I prefer eating with the kids!

    Of course if the administration required me to eat with the kids everyday,
    without a scheduled break, all this would be a very different pickle. But
    they don't require it. They just don't know what a good deal they're
    getting. So it goes...

    Mark Alexander
    K-12 Art
    Region One in northwestern Connecticut 

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