You know, you're needed here, you'd like to think maybe you're needed here, this is where you should be, especially if you have this old missionary in you from the 60's, the old Catholic thing. This is where I should be, I mean I should do this. It's a moral obligation that I have. That's the other issue. It's like I can have all the greatest ideas, and the greatest intentions, and all the energy in the world, but the system will wear you down and kill you.
Teachers have their own complaints about the school bureaucracy.
One Friday in January, I accompanied a bunch of the younger teachers to a bar called Morretti's, after school. It was pay day. Beers were served. Mr. Newman, the music teacher, got everybody playing the bar's computerized trivia game. Oh this oughta be easy.