Brick Walls

[Bruce Alan Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 144884

Bboymin:
"I can understand the frustration that many teachers have with their
students. The students are so wrapped up in their teen-pop-culutre
lives that they can't give a thought to the future. I imagine that
every teacher at one time or another (most likely on a daily basis)
has had the uncontrollable urge to take a student firmly by the
collar, shake them vigorously, and scream in their face, "This is
important! This is your future! THIS MATTERS!". "


Yes, yes, yes.  SO often I wanted to do this.  Alas, one is not 
allowed to do so.  There is a saying, "The best thing about bashing 
one's head against a brick wall is that it feels SO good when you 
stop."  My students' heads were at least as hard as brick walls, 
and when I finally decided that NOTHING would ever induce me to 
return to a classroom as a teacher it was so liberating.  I would
imagine that Snape feels a little like that post HBP, in spite of 
the circumstances of his leaving Hogwarts.

Bruce