Conversation with your dad
You need to change your mindset. Accept the children as they are. Perhaps they will become useful and successful even though their English is like shit.
One ear in one ear out. There will always be people who give you advice and people who criticise you. As long as you have done your best, your conscience is clear.
Focus on your relationship with your children. As long as you are happy and they are happy and you enjoy the lesson, that’s good enough. Focus on what you can do, and enjoy doing it!
Education is not only about results, although your bosses focus on that. Don’t care about what they demand.
Out of 100 colleagues that you have, maybe 3 or 4 will become your true friends in need. Certainly there will be those who, seeing you struggle and start to sink, push your head further into the water.
Do what you can and if you really can’t, ask for a transfer.
Mismatches are common–there’re many like you and many who have it worse than you.
Tell them that you have been reflecting and speaking to educationists with decades of experience who have advised you about the realities and limitations of the profession
The world is unfair so you cannot expect fairness.
Relax and make yourself at home.
I just needed someone who’s been there and done that to talk to me.
To repeat what I need to bear firmly in mind.
To provide a reality check.
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But I also needed someone who is passionate and crazy like me to give me reassurance that I don’t necessarily have to resign myself to fate. And I took a chance and I found her!
Time for me to be a beacon of light for others. A true one. Not one that looks brand-new but is crumbling inside
