In an effort to get as much link to this blog as possible, I posted a new, rare entry on my old Xanga blog. Before I got around to posting a new post, it turns out that the most recent one was about calling my mom on her birthday.
For context: My mom’s birthday is also Valentine’s Day, which makes it [...]
February 18, 2008 in Personal Reflection
Tags: classroom, credibility, currency, education, financial security, guilty, honesty, lies, lying, secret, student, student loans, student teacher, teacher
I lied to my students. I don’t have student loans.
I would have told the truth if I didn’t get the impression that people hate me for growing up with some amount of financial security. It isn’t even like I go around telling people that I’m a white youth from a so-called privileged background. They just figure it [...]