I started the day running late because I couldn't decide what to wear because that new teal shirt I just bought has a grease stain on it already. And it's cool, cold almost, in the mornings, but hitting 80 by mid-afternoon and that means dressing in layers and figuring what I have to layer that won't leave me either too hot or too cold seemed impossible this morning.
I ended up going into work in a perfectly serviceable outfit that I did not like one bit, and that set the tone for the day.
It should have been my easy day, since I only teach 3 (long) classes today, but it wasn't.
Without getting into anything specific, let me just say this: if a student makes comments about my personal appearance ("Mrs H has a nice butt") and constantly invades my personal space and touches me even though I have repeatedly made it clear that behavior is unacceptable, the person that needs to change is the student, not me, regardless of the excuses her older sister and her mother make. That exchange was the coup de grace.
I'm seeing way, way too much "I reject your reality and I substitute my own" behavior. There is only one reality and we all have to live in it.
Or maybe we don't, but I don't want to live in the world some of these people are inhabiting.
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