Pffffft. Anyone can teach. How hard can it be?

If you don't mind having your heart ripped out and torn to shreds... teach, any age and you will discover life, is very cruel at times and it will leave very deep scars.

As a former community college prof, teaching the skilled trade of HVACR, I was very fortunate to have been selected to teach an all female pre-apprenticeship class made up of, what I was advised, a less fortunate group of women.

It was on one occasion, upon leaving the College for that day, I saw one of the young women sleeping at her table in the cafeteria, with her "refrigeration text" open. I approached slowly and sat across from her and asked... are you ok?

She opened her eyes all apologetic saying she's having trouble learning and retaining the information. Oh? Am I going to fast in class, is there something I can do to help you understand.... and she waved her hand, no, no not at all. I have a learning disability, my brain has a hard time... I, I, I can't recall things"... Well, would you like me to help you go over... again she stopped me and said.. it's not you... it's me... (She was 21, a beautiful young woman).... and she started crying....

"I'm in this program the government is offering woman an opportunity to learn and have a chance... but, Professor... it's not working for me.

I replied, "Oh, well, failing our way to success".... she stopped me again and said... (now, I caution you, if you've read this far... buckle up - this is gonna hurt)... she whispered, "my mother died when I was young, I have a twin brother, and when I was 11, my Father used to get really drunk, come home, and physically beat my brother and I and rape us... my head... I can't retain information... Professor... I'm going to rest now, I'll see you tomorrow", and she got up and walked out of the cafeteria... I never saw her again. She quit the program.

I learned more from that woman's class than any class I've ever taught. Years later I resigned from teaching, August 17th, 2022 after the College, once again put someone in my class that literally could kill me, citing; "well, they have rights, and you don't have the right to know their past"...

Our post secondary PUBLIC education system in Ontario is beyond fucked, and run by "educated" people and teachers unions that retain the right to fuck a Professor over... so... I learned, never to teach in public education - ever.

They think nothing of the Teacher who gives their all. They'll take it, everything you have, and give you nothing in return except your paycheck which they asses your worth.

If you get a great teacher... you have been blessed as good, to great, to awesome teachers in the Province of Ontario, Canada, soon learn, you need to take care of yourself and not be co-dependent on dysfunctional, and utterly thankless teaching opportunities.

I now teach top performance related subject matter in Sports - Golf - Get The Mental Game, and Skilled Trades - HVACR Theatre, Learn to Start, Manage, and Exit a top performing skilled trades business, And... Self Management... Develop Your Eh! Game! (it's a Canadian thing).

I also love to write and perform my brand of Stand Up Comedy, Story Telling and Speaking.

Laughter is a form of medicine.

Where ever that young woman is now, I hope she has found peace within, and arrived at some ability to forgive herself, her brother, her mother,... her Father and the "system".

Peace Unto You. Happy St. Patrick's Day

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