I remember too well being herded into the auditorium during my time there and being forced to listen to old girls telling us about their gap yahs and the wonderful feeling of patronising, sorry, teaching, poor children on the other side of the world, to ever dream of wanting to inflict myself on any current students.
Now years later, after choreographing and teaching workshops for a while -- no, sorry, you don't teach workshops because you have no draw: you are not a choreographer with backing, who might later employ the workshop participants.
"That's what caused the government shutdown, the -- I'm sorry, I used to teach preschool -- the temper tantrum on the floor, to show how somehow they are powerful".
"I was sorry you stopped teaching the class," he said.
We're sorry your mom had to teach you the hard way.
I'm sorry your mama didn't teach you to respect your elders, but I'm the one who taught your husband how to use a toilet.
Later, Brother Ali stopped the show to teach: "I'm sorry, I know this isn't what you paid your money to see," he said, "but some of us are privileged in big, fucked-up ways".
So teach them to buy saying sorry politely, and asking them to say sorry too.
We teach our children to say sorry".
Parents can teach and support them to say 'I'm sorry' and to clean it up, maybe leaving the kitchen a little cleaner than it was before".
