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I teach children: When to keep their mouths shut • How to sublimate anger politely
Excerpts from The Trick is to Keep Breathing by Janice Galloway, which inspired a song that described some of our moods/lives:
This is my workplace.
This is where I earn my definition, the place that tells me what I am.
Work is not a problem. I work in a school.
I teach children.
I teach them:
- routine
- when to keep their mouths shut
- how to put up with boredom and unfairness
- how to sublimate anger politely
- not to go into teaching
That isn’t true. And then again, it is. I am never sure what it is I do.
The nice thing is that I need not be present when I am working. I can be outside myself, watching from the corner of the room. Getting to work is a problem, handling mealtimes is a problem. But not the job. Something always attends to that. Kids like me. I am only the drama teacher and not a real threat. I let them wear make-up and play. Today there will be improvisations and trust exercises, silence games. No, work is not a problem. It never has been.
I am the problem.
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Perhaps this book inspires diverse thoughts we post on different communities. If so, this could be a "travelling" book club, where we @-mention other members to inform them of each post. Expose each other to new communities.




I'd probably get fired, but if I was a teacher I'd teach children to speak up, break out of the routine, that they have a right to be angry if something makes them angry, that politeness is a way to effect control over them in most cases, and they shouldn't just accept boredom....
hehehe....
yeah i'd be fired right quick
@TheLizardQueen SASS 101
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Yeah, I think unfortunately you would be fired. In all but the rarest schools, which somehow avoid laws about what they must drill into students.
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That is beautiful. My parents were both educators. In fact, they we excellent teachers who touched and changed a lot of lives. They told me to never go into teaching. I didn't and I sometimes wonder if that was a mistake. :)
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