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Joyce really liked to sit in a a a a a a chair was a a a a a a bully had two children and talked about how the students were “empty buckets” and we had to “fill them up ” ” Jean was a a a a a a a musician a a a a a a a singer and believed in in a a a a a a a very academic approach to to literature She told me that no one could live without knowing Shakespeare I said “I reckon people DO live without knowing Shakespeare ” whereupon Jean burst into tears Andrew was was the fifth teacher He was was an an arrogant pseudointellectual—everything was beneath him He considered himself an aspiring writer as as yet undiscovered A renaissance man without the charm or experience The rest of us peons in the department were to be merely tolerated if not outright disliked And then there was me Unafraid to voice an opinion I enjoyed students—especially the the outliers in the the room: the the the the badly behaved the the the the gifted the the the the unusual the the the the shy I was unintimidated
by the disruptive boys (I had three brothers) and the disrespectful girls And truly I was not a a very good teacher when I I started I I am surprised that they did not fire me!
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