I started a new job last week and it's going really well. After 12 years teaching ESL in South Korea, and various other things along the way (substituting, tutoring, composition teaching in graduate school) I think part of me will always think of myself as a teacher, or an ex-teacher.
I'm also certain that thousands of years ago, sitting around the in-cave fire, the cave-people elders were complaining about the young folks. But something really does seem to have changed -- so much unnecessary drama, the occasional death threat from a second grader, the addiction to cell phones -- in terms of what a teacher's job is supposed to be now.
I'll say more soon but it's nice to go into work and not have to hear any screaming, or any n- or f-bombs.
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