We do. I had no idea that this particular English teacher thought I was a suck up until she asked in front of the entire class, “You realize you’re going to get extra credit for doing this, right?” (She’d asked me to come in and do my presentation on a T.S. Eliot poem for another class because no one in that period had chosen it.) Her qu…
We do. I had no idea that this particular English teacher thought I was a suck up until she asked in front of the entire class, “You realize you’re going to get extra credit for doing this, right?” (She’d asked me to come in and do my presentation on a T.S. Eliot poem for another class because no one in that period had chosen it.) Her question shocked me, and I told her that I had no idea and just considered it an honor to be asked. I think she was trying to humiliate me 🤷♀️, but I was made of sterner stuff. LOL
I was a sassy and confident teenager. I’m still sassy (although others might use another term 🤪) and will stand up, even when I’m scared because, if not me, then who?
We do. I had no idea that this particular English teacher thought I was a suck up until she asked in front of the entire class, “You realize you’re going to get extra credit for doing this, right?” (She’d asked me to come in and do my presentation on a T.S. Eliot poem for another class because no one in that period had chosen it.) Her question shocked me, and I told her that I had no idea and just considered it an honor to be asked. I think she was trying to humiliate me 🤷♀️, but I was made of sterner stuff. LOL
I was a sassy and confident teenager. I’m still sassy (although others might use another term 🤪) and will stand up, even when I’m scared because, if not me, then who?
May your "sassiness" be tempered with righteousness and wisdom, Marci!!
Sass on--LOL!!!