Thanks everybody. I'm definitely going to water myself down a lot. Now I remember why I don't want a life in the dominant culture.
They actually lied to me to get me here. They told me I'd be doing all the fun one on one stuff that I'm good at and like doing and promised I wouldn't have to do recess or gym (which is like herding cats, really - last time I was here one of the kids got a black eye and I felt all bad and they told me that was actually really good because it was *only* one black eye). But now they're like, oh we haven't hired anyone to do that, so you'll have to do that. Which puts them out of legal compliance, but whatever. So I'll do the three days that I commited to, but I'll probably take off next week (subbing is like stripping, I come and go as I please :-) ).
Actually the parents of the kids I work with are mostly really cool. It's grandparents/aunts/parents from other schools/etc that I've mostly had problems with. Even the parent that I had to call and tell that her kid had a black eye was nice about it.




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