No Favors
Self-Awareness as Non-Negotiable
6 min readFeb 12, 2024
Let’s start boldly: No professional educator working anywhere is doing anyone a favor. No matter what situation you are working in, no matter how dysfunctional it is, or how poorly compensated you might be, if you are showing up and collecting a paycheck to educate other people, you aren’t doing it as a favor to anyone; not your students, or their parents, or your…