What Do You Mean, Excessive Paperwork?
Please do tell me I should be doing more.
The job of teaching itself is a pleasure, an honor, and it is work. The acts of building relationships with students that make sending them to the dean’s office unnecessary isn’t a simple matter of standing there and expecting them to respect thy will. That interchange of values, ideals, and cultures between the so-called teacher and the so-called student is a higher order of work. Having 30 or so unsettled spirits at a time in a teacher’s charge is that unnamed and ever-present element we must teach. That passion for the job remains in the most ardent of us. Those of us who’ve stayed in the profession long enough to see children turn to young adults, and perhaps into teachers in their own right know how this toil, tithing from our souls almost yearly.
And we love it.
Then the rest of the teaching profession comes in and it’s anywhere from marvel to mayhem, the disparate experiences a function of teaching students who barely know who they are as people. Our What Do You Mean, Excessive Paperwork? | The Jose Vilson:
