Teaching Hope: Disillusionment

The first journal entry that I really loved was entry ninety three, “Trials of Dating”, and that part that I really connected with was the hesitation on the teacher’s end about telling people that she’s a teacher. While I’ve never been in a situation where I’ve had a date, there have been situations where I felt uncomfortable professing my interest in becoming a teacher. Sometimes, being surrounded by certain people, I know that they aren’t going to respond the way I want them too when I tell them I want to be a teacher, or that they’ll act interested but actually not be. This especially happens when I tell people I want to teach middle school, usually the response is far less enthusiastic than I want it to be. I also thought this journal was interesting, because it gave insight to the kinds of social lives that one might have a teacher.

The second entry that I really enjoyed reading was entry one hundred and three, “Quitting Catholic School”. I personally didn’t attend Catholic school growing up, only ever public school, but my mom went to Catholic school as a kid, and while I had heard stories about her education as a kid, it was hard to really envision what Catholic school is like. This entry really just kind of added to my knowledge about the kind of environment that exists in Catholic schools and the strict and kind of stuffy environment that they have. Catholic schools are the schools that I have the least amount of knowledge on, so it was very interesting to hear about it from this point of view, which differs from the stories I had heard from my mom.