tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27682516.post2257467560831370503..comments2023-10-30T06:21:19.696-04:00Comments on My Little Corner of the World: A TEACHER’S RESIGNATION LETTERpossumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912443125826672230noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27682516.post-55363805062589359532015-04-23T11:11:59.188-04:002015-04-23T11:11:59.188-04:00Even in the early 1980s when a student cut my wife...Even in the early 1980s when a student cut my wife with a knife, she was asked what she did to make him think he could treat her that way, and all he received was a paddling. She wanted him expelled (consistent with school policy), so she took the matter to the school board, and they too blamed the incident on her, saying she shouldn't have been in the hallway an hour after the school day ended. What they really meant was that she shouldn't have been young and pretty.<br /><br />I frankly don't know what's going on today, but I know that when I was a teacher in the '70s, my principal told me that it wasn't how much good I did that mattered, but how much good people thought I did.Snowbrushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00436087215476479042noreply@blogger.com