Teachers, Power Dynamics & How to Host a Gathering
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When I became a teacher, I had exactly one goal. Not to be Mrs. X (I’ve purposefully chosen to obscure her name.) This was a woman who would assert “This is a dictatorship, not a democracy.” She would yell. Her interpretation of the course material was the only correct one. She would casually hand us money and ask us to run across the street to the pizza shop to buy her a specific lunch, when obviously there was no way we could refuse (even if we would rather be doing something else with our free time).
Teachers, Power Dynamics & How to Host a Gathering
Teachers, Power Dynamics & How to Host a…
Teachers, Power Dynamics & How to Host a Gathering
When I became a teacher, I had exactly one goal. Not to be Mrs. X (I’ve purposefully chosen to obscure her name.) This was a woman who would assert “This is a dictatorship, not a democracy.” She would yell. Her interpretation of the course material was the only correct one. She would casually hand us money and ask us to run across the street to the pizza shop to buy her a specific lunch, when obviously there was no way we could refuse (even if we would rather be doing something else with our free time).