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Originally Posted by Dondilion
I have come to the same conclusion a long time ago and my daughter who
is training to be a maths teacher and has to do observation stints in
the NYC school system has expressed the same belief.
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Before the blonde went back to grad school and became a mental health professional, she taught elementary school for 15 years on the West Side of Chicago, until it finally overwhelmed her. It was in a neighborhood that was, at the time, in no man's land between Vice Lords and Gangster Disciples turf. And she was a spectacularly good teacher, as she is a psychotherapist today. She could write a book on her experiences in a west side school and everybody would think it was satire. Like the time she broke up a fight between two kids and an hour later one of the mothers staggered into the school with a half-pint of Smirnoff's in one hand and a revolver in the other looking for "...the white honky bitch with the skinny legs who put her fucking hands on my baby." They hid her in the school walk-in safe until the cops finally showed up.