BORN 2 WRITE AND ASSIGN 60 QUESTION MULTIPLE CHOICE EXAM ON THE CRUCIBLE
FORCED TO GRADE MY OWN ASSIGNMENT
THE BOY SITTING NEXT TO HER: Hey Captain Lastname, you know what - what “CANABLISM” is? ‘Cause she thinks she does.
I don’t know if it’s possible to teach people how to recognize like “fishing for a reaction” but the true teacher jutsu is to under-react and offer a snack
Every day people ask “how do you have such good behavioral outcomes with traumatized kids with ODD” and the answer is I do not react to SHIT. Every day children tell me they want to skin their dad and I say “well, did you? okay, I’m glad you didn’t, because that would be a huge hassle for me. I would be annoyed. would you like a cracker? are you hungry?”
STUDENT: why are you so… whatever about… you say you’d be like… annoyed with me if I hurt someone. that’s really not a big reaction. most people would be more upset.
ME: Do you want me to be upset? It’s a matter of perspective, bud. That doesn’t affect me at all. I think you’re sensible enough to make non-annoying choices.
HIM: hm…. but like, you’d be a little mad. you could be madder.
ME: I would be annoyed. I would not share a single triscuit with you that day.
HIM: ughhhhh. fine.
I think the actual story is bleak enough that most commenters will correctly infer that I'm not writing this because the wife is gonna show up, alive, and become relevant. This is for my own sick enjoyment. Exclusively.
that was the high point of substituting for freshman environmental science. the low point was when I slipped and said "you can't be saying that, white baby" to a child and he very clearly did not get it
To try to become "Halimede" is impossible. you must become "yourself". This is a lesson from Transgender: you can only be who you are.