07/10/2021, 12:06 - 12:25.
Back in 2019, when I had just started college, I was offered a job as a teacher in a local academy. It was near my home and I only had to work for three day a week, and so I accepted the job. The place was nice, kind of. Most of my students were fine and with some of them I had lots of fun since I’ve never been one to use traditional teaching methods, but I had problems with one of them. Well, I didn’t have a problem with him, it was his mother that was driving me absolutely mad.
You see, this boy had ADHD, but besides that he was hardworking and had no problem communicating his own thoughts. Still, his mother was awfully overprotective. She would stay for the longest minutes ever after dropping him off talking to me about how stressed she was because of his child’s “illness”, which I’m 120% sure must have been horrible for the boy to hear, and how she absolutely hated that his highschool wanted him to have special support teachers and more accessible lessons. Nothing that this woman did or said made sense, and she was constantly bringing in extra homework for him to do, which he wasn’t able to do and so that would trigger self-deprecating outbursts. The issue didn’t stop there, as she phoned me multiple times off work asking for extra classes while venting to me, again, about “how sad and awful his son’s sickness was”.
All of that toxicity started to impact my own mental health, and so I decided to quit in mid-February 2020. However, the owner of the academy asked me to stay for the whole month since she was closing the academy due to a lack of students. I obliged, and so I left the job, you saw this coming, two weeks before lockdown.
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