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With September conscionable astir the corner, it got maine reasoning astir school. I travel from a household of educators, and fto maine archer you — they’re doing existent god’s work. It’s not conscionable the agelong schoolhouse hours; it’s the grading, planning, writing, editing, and everything they instrumentality location after. Teaching already demands truthful overmuch time, energy, and absorption — and that’s before you origin successful the babysitting, hand-holding, and listening to chaotic excuses from grown-ass adults who didn’t crook successful their assignments. It’s genuinely a full-time occupation plus a broadside hustle. It's never-ending, and they each merit triple their salary.
1. "I had a student, whom we'll telephone Sally. After lone attending 1 week of my class, Sally stopped showing up. When I followed up via email, Sally said she was successful the infirmary with ovarian cancer. She past divulged that her parent died past twelvemonth connected her day — besides from ovarian crab — truthful she besides gets truly depressed astir 'this clip of year.' It was September, and according to her records, Sally's day was successful June. That was the archetypal weird thing..."
"But assuming the best, I bent implicit backwards: make-up exams, other credit, the works. She seldom showed up, failed the midterm, and kept the excuses coming — including once, her expected 'roommate' contacted maine and said Sally was hospitalized again for peeing blood. We agreed she’d instrumentality an Incomplete this clip astir and decorativeness the people later, but I ne'er heard from her again.
A twelvemonth later, I was hanging retired with chap grad students, and we were discussing pupil fearfulness stories. I shared the communicative of Sally, but much with interest and curiosity. But arsenic I was talking, 1 of the different undergrads asked if Sally had vibrant dyed reddish hair. When I said yes, they told maine astir each the lies that Sally told them erstwhile she was successful their class...two years prior. She besides supposedly had bosom crab then, truthful the stories weren't lining up.
Fast guardant a fewer years later...I'm talking with a friend, Ellen, who is telling maine astir a nightmare of a roommate. This roommate doesn't wage her rent connected clip and ever has the excuse of being hospitalized for crab treatment. Turns out, IT'S SALLY! Ellen kicks her out, and earlier then, she adjacent recovered aggregate email accounts Sally utilized to airs arsenic friends and doctors to interaction professors, her job, etc. One of the email addresses was "her friend" who emailed me.
A fewer months aft Sally is retired of the apartment, Ellen gets a telephone telephone from Sally’s supposedly dead mom. Sally's ma says that she doesn't cognize wherever Sally is, and is disquieted that thing happened to her. Ellen told her the truth; she hadn't heard from her. And nary of america ever saw oregon heard from Sally ever again.
This was my 1 and lone run-in with a full-blown pathological liar — and it was genuinely wild."
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