While waiting for a recent flight, I had the pleasure of speaking to a gentleman named Dustin. He is a 6th grade teacher in Florida and I could tell that Dustin is a guy who loves his job, enjoys helping and teaching kids and truly wants to make a difference in the lives and futures of those around him.
At one point, the conversation turned to those teachers who didn’t display the same attitude, and how they seemed to complain a lot and generally blamed the kids, the administration, and the parents for their bad experience (and attitude) as teachers.
Dustin then went on to talk about how this impacts the students.
“The kids can tell. They don’t respond well to people who don’t seem to care. They can smell fake.”
My first thought was, “like a dog can smell fear”?
“Sort of”, Dustin said. “They can tell when someone…
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