> At the time, I had no teaching experience. The deprivation of the
> children was an absolute shock to me. I was not describing my heroics
> as a teacher, but rather how difficult the work is.
It is indeed difficult, and not everybody is equipped for it.
Of course the intrinsic difficulty is much magnified by arbitrary and ungrounded institutional expectations about what's normal and what's not, how children can be expected to behave, what they can be expected to learn at what pace, and so on. There are few institutions less reality-based than Amurrican edumacation.
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