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What were the new challenges?
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The casual nature of the atmosphere with small numbers. I may have told this story on here before but here’s an example. It’s kind of good and bad.
I had six kids at a table and we were going over some document one of those things I was teaching them how to quickly pull the important information from it. Whatever.
One of the kids said “You seem like you’re black” and I was like “Well I’m white. I grew up in an all white neighborhood and everything” and he said “why do you seem like a regular person?” And I said “White people are regular people” and he said “no other white people are different”
All the kids were black and they weren’t like saying I act black like a wigger. They were just saying I didn’t act like I was better than them or more important or whatever. But that sense of equalitarianism was a double edged sword. I made it clear I wasn’t a “friend” but you know how it goes. They took advantage of the situation sometimes.
I don’t know if that answers your question. I don’t want you to get mean about it though. I wasn’t a perfect teacher. I know you’re smart enough to guess what my weaknesses were. You don’t need to call me out.