I'm entering the world of teaching and one of the very first assignments in one of my education classes was a paper on, "Why I want to be a teacher."
This paper came with a couple of explicit instructions:
1. It can't contain the phrase, "because I like kids."
2. It should evoke a sense of passion.
I was so happy to see rule #1 because I really don't like kids other than my own. Whew! The assumption made by the instructor is that anyone wanting to become a teacher likes kids so don't even bother putting it down. You know what they say about assumptions. It makes an ass out of u and mptions.
So I wrote my short paper in typical Donkey fashion ("It's getting him to shut up that's the trick") and luckily I did not get marked down for my inability to keep things brief. In fact, I found this note today about my paper from the instructor:
"Extremely powerful and one of the better organized papers I have read. You sound quite passionate, which is exactly what we need in the profession. I guess I should say life-style instead of profession."
Don't hold me to that "life-style" thing too closely. My dad was a teacher and my sister and brother-in-law are teachers and they spend way more time at the school than I ever plan to. When we get together, all they talk about is school. That's how it was in police work too. Cops don't *do* police work. Cops *live* police work. I'm looking to escape that sort of thing.
I just want to spend some time with my family. You know, the kids that I like. =)
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