In a message dated 5/12/02 7:08:03 PM Mountain Daylight Time, zippywebgenie@hotmail.com writes: > I also think that teaching is a burn-out job. I don't know how any of them > do it for more than 15 years without a nervous breakdown. And I can > understand how burn out affects the teachers' performance. Jan G., sometimes they are part of the cause of their own burn out. I think this is because some have a one dimensional way of thinking and teaching. Examples: 1. The three oldest girls in my family had the same cooking teacher. She was an excellent teacher, really had it all together, until she had us in her class. Problem? She couldn't accept that we were full sisters, we look nothing alike, plus different personalities. She went so far as to tell our Mom that we must have had different fathers, because full sisters could never be so different. This really insulted my Mom, her and Dad will be married 60 years in Oct this year. 2. My next sister younger and I had the same fifth grade teacher. I loved her, my sister hated her. Apparently she liked me and didn't care much for my sister. This was strictly a personality problem, however it affected her teaching while my sister was in her class. 3. Two younger sisters had the same first grade teacher. These sisters are nothing alike in temperament or appearance. This teacher comments how different they are. My Mom told the teacher, "Yes, and I wish them to remain individuals." Mom wanted none of us to be carbon copies of the other, we aren't, however the older we get the more we resemble each other physically. 4. My middle daughter had a math teacher who would explain a theory and my daughter couldn't grasp it. She would ask for further explanation, the teacher would go through the same explanation, exactly the same way, louder. My daughter is not stupid or hard of hearing, she just needed an explanation from a different angle than the teacher was presenting it. She brought the problem home and we were able to help her understand the problem. This was not a single occurrence with that teacher. Since I'm the third of nine children and have three daughters and have 25 nieces and nephews, I could go on ad nausium, I won't. Aleta, IBSSG, Charter Member Bo-Peep Award Ogden, Utah, USA "God sent his Singers upon the Earth, With songs of Gladness and Mirth. That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them to Heaven again." --Longfellow

<AletaM@aol.com> > 1. .... She went so far as to tell our Mom that we must have had different fathers, because full sisters could never be so different. This really insulted my Mom, her and Dad will be married 60 years in Oct this year.< Wow!! Talk about a major faux pas on the part of the teacher! ROFL Good thing she wasn't teaching genetics, eh? Best, SueB