That
same friend also talked about the 1st days of the first religion
teacher who stayed a while, this (older) (white) liberal post-Vatican II nun
who everyone now loves in retrospect but at the time was experienced as an odd mix
of repetitious lectures on social justice and unpredictable disciplinary
boundaries where she’d spazz out at people who had purposely baited her.
As my
friend tells it, in her 1st days, she spazzed out at someone and
said something to the effect of “What are you trying to pull?, who do you think
I am?”, to which the (smart ass) (white) (high school) kid sassed back
condescendingly, “You’re a religion teacher in a small Catholic high school in
[name of town], [name of state].”
At that,
she broke out crying.
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