Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for June 25, 2013
Transcript:
Val: Every summer I wonder why I didn't become a teacher... Gramma Evie: I TRIED to tell you! Gramma Evie: I TOLD you it was a great career for a woman> I told you OVER AND OVER.. Val: NOW I remember. Gramma Evie: But you NEVER listened! Nothing I said meant ANYTHING to you! If I said it, you ignored it! And when -
Right on the nose, Jay. I heard that horsebleep for years, about how much time I always had off, how little I did, teaching defined the term ‘sinecure’, etc. The irony is that few people can actually teach. It is a gift, not a given. I saw so many people who left the job after a semester, in one case after two miserable months, many more who didn’t go past one or two years. Yeah, right—let’s see some of those critics do the job.