A Wedding and Some Free Advice
We went to a wedding yesterday. It was two friends I used to teach with. They met at the school where we worked and found love in a hopeless place.
My wife and I don’t go to many weddings anymore. There was a long period where we went to four or five weddings every year. That gradually tapered off and faded into the current era of second weddings and bar mitzvas.
This was that rare first wedding of two good friends. Nothin’ better than that. Unless, of course, it doesn’t work out. Then it can be truly horrible. But these two love each other and, maybe just as important, they really like each other. It’s a good thing to see.
There were about 20 former and current teachers there who we had worked with. It was great to see people and find out what they were doing. I was reminded again that there are great places to teach. A lot of my former colleagues are really happy with the schools they’ve moved to. I’m bummed I never found a school like that.
All and all I think I’m glad to be out, but I know that teaching doesn’t have to be the way it was in the poo-hole school where we all taught. I think I could have been happy teaching for a long time in the right place. As it turns out I lasted