#471 Our Lady of Peace- ZZ Packer
Lynnea finally got out of her backwoods Kentucky town…only
to end up in Baltimore. Her freelance writing job wasn’t paying enough so she
took a teaching program and ended up at a public High School.
Teaching public High School in a poorly funded, weakly
supported bad part of a city like Baltimore isn’t as bad as you might think;
It’s a thousand tomes worse. It is definitely not the place to go to find
yourself, or figure out your own life. Children are self-centered creatures,
they are supposed to be that way, that’s their job. If you can’t find a way to
keep your own insecurities out of the classroom, things will spiral out of
control.
I think that’s what happens to Lynnea in this story. Of
course the children should behave, of course they should show respect, and want
to learn. But if they don’t, is really isn’t their fault?
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