“Without giving up their human side, teachers have to put aside their fear and do the job, even as their teenaged students test them again and again.” Then Mika responds with “We’re just gonna crush your hope and pride. Teachers need to get a harder shell. After that, students won’t see that you’re scared” (page 168).
I do not think that teachers need to ‘get a harder shell’ because they are afraid that their students are going to ‘crush their hope and pride’. I think that is a terrible thing to say. You have to make yourself a littler vulnerable to your students, or else why would you want to be a teacher? You do not want to show your students that you are scared to teach, but a teacher should never be in fear of a student. If I have students that are deliberately trying to ‘crush my hope and pride’ I have chosen the wrong career. I think it is important to find the balance between the two extremes of friend and authoritarian, especially in the first few years, but there will be no student allowed in my classroom that makes me fear being there, for any reason.
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