Sometimes it feels like running into a brick wall. I've taught these kids now for more than five years and when they say stuff like that I feel like a failure, because tolerance is obviously one of my most important teaching aims.
But then, as teachers, we're sometimes a lone voice in the wilderness of sexist, racist and homophobic voices, especially when the kids hear this kind of stuff at home a lot.
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Date: 2008-05-30 09:47 am (UTC)Sometimes it feels like running into a brick wall. I've taught these kids now for more than five years and when they say stuff like that I feel like a failure, because tolerance is obviously one of my most important teaching aims.
But then, as teachers, we're sometimes a lone voice in the wilderness of sexist, racist and homophobic voices, especially when the kids hear this kind of stuff at home a lot.