Friday – Smooth
Oct. 15th, 2010 09:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ninanevermore.
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The discipline report in Sweet Pea's folder yesterday was blank, except for a note saying that there was a substitute teacher who was supposed to leave notes for his regular teacher, Mrs. F.
"You had a different teacher today?" I asked Sweet Pea as we drove home.
"Yeah," came the answer from the back seat.
"Was she nice?"
"Yeah…but she talked boring." That explains why he went to the office on at least one occasion (that he fessed up to).
"Was she a younger woman, like Miss H., or an older woman?" I asked this because I am curious about how experienced teachers handle him verses ones who are just learning their craft.
"Well, she was a grownup. But younger than you; she was smooth."
Ouch. I'm at a point where I am neither young nor old, but I'm not so old that I'm not mostly smooth.
"She was smooth?"
"Yeah. Younger grownups are smooth, and older grownups aren't. She was smooth, so does that make her young?"
"It does," I told him. "Am I young or old?"
"You're smooth, so that makes you young."
This made me happy to hear. "But not as smooth as Miss H," I said. Miss H. is an intern teacher who will graduate college in the spring. She is about 20 years my junior.
"No, she's smoother."
I couldn't help but think that after a few more years of teaching children like Sweet Pea and she might not be, but I was still happy in my own relative smoothness.
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The discipline report in Sweet Pea's folder yesterday was blank, except for a note saying that there was a substitute teacher who was supposed to leave notes for his regular teacher, Mrs. F.
"You had a different teacher today?" I asked Sweet Pea as we drove home.
"Yeah," came the answer from the back seat.
"Was she nice?"
"Yeah…but she talked boring." That explains why he went to the office on at least one occasion (that he fessed up to).
"Was she a younger woman, like Miss H., or an older woman?" I asked this because I am curious about how experienced teachers handle him verses ones who are just learning their craft.
"Well, she was a grownup. But younger than you; she was smooth."
Ouch. I'm at a point where I am neither young nor old, but I'm not so old that I'm not mostly smooth.
"She was smooth?"
"Yeah. Younger grownups are smooth, and older grownups aren't. She was smooth, so does that make her young?"
"It does," I told him. "Am I young or old?"
"You're smooth, so that makes you young."
This made me happy to hear. "But not as smooth as Miss H," I said. Miss H. is an intern teacher who will graduate college in the spring. She is about 20 years my junior.
"No, she's smoother."
I couldn't help but think that after a few more years of teaching children like Sweet Pea and she might not be, but I was still happy in my own relative smoothness.
