One reader, Jennifer, suggested the silent treatment: I think the hardest part is not just being rejected at face value by these schools, but having to endure the incessant questions posed by teachers and other students: "Were you accepted?
I've seen it in Yoga where the newly trained teacher becomes an incessant consumer of the yoga industry: more programs, more trainings, more courses -- just to feel "good enough" that one day they'll be ready enough and knowledgeable enough to teach.
New Yorkers can only assume Elia was selected because she will implement the Cuomo (Governor) and Tisch (Regent Chancellor) agenda which includes the incessant testing of students, evaluating teachers based on student test scores, a tax cap that prevents school districts from raising needed funds, and an all-out legislative push for tax credits for "donations" to private and religious schools.
I often found myself at the end of a class approaching the teacher and asking the same incessant, toddler-type question, "Why?" All sorts of whys.
Starting in kindergarten, he was the student who drove teachers to distraction with his incessant tapping on his desk.
David was a kind and humorous man, and an inspirational teacher, but his family often suffered from the incessant politics.
"After some incessant nagging, I did it at once and immediately felt creepy and sinister," the teacher wrote.
Now, don't get me wrong, teachers love the start of summer as well -- it means a break from incessant questions and hormonal inconsistencies and, of course, an opportunity to bronze by the pool for a couple of months.
The truth is that teachers just need to be left alone to do their jobs, instead of facing incessant interference from the latest fads imposed on them by administrators and legislators, most of whom have never spent a single day in a classroom in front of difficult students.
Temple started having some contact with others, especially one or two teachers who could appreciate her intelligence, her specialness, and could withstand her pathology — her now incessant talking and questioning, her strange fixations, her rages.
