The Art of Detachment

I've figured that until the day I successfully master the art of detachment, I'll be expecting lousy days every Day 5. I can't help myself but I absolutely detest going into Class 2B and Class 2AB. Yes, you heard me right - DETEST. I have no idea how anyone can behave so terribly in the classroom. The thing that irks me is that it seems they have been like this for the longest time and no amount of discipline and punishment seems to work.

So, is being underprivileged (or so it has been claimed) the passport for bad behaviour? I'm just curious why is it that with so much help offered to them, nothing much's changed? Why would anyone choose to be stuck in the same vicious cycle, knowing very clearly that history is very likely going to repeat itself, generation after generation?

So you say, "But at least they're not targeting their wrath at you...isn't that a consolation?" Yeah, but I still feel terrible whenever I step into the class. You know, personally, the worst thing that can happen to a teacher is to lose her students although they are physically present in the classroom.

And I know that some students are capable of having a much better life than what is given by their parents, if they try hard enough. How do I know, you ask? Well, they told me so...from the look in their eyes...