Reflecting on a Teacher’s Unusual Behavior

Athena
3 min readMar 23, 2024

Sometimes, the world presents us with moments that challenge our perceptions and force us to confront our deepest values. Recently, I found myself navigating such a moment when a teacher at my son’s school (not my child’s teacher) chose an unconventional method to connect with the students: by dressing up as my son, complete with a name tag that read, “Hello, my name is…”

At first, the image of an adult donning a school uniform with a name tag that showed my son’s name, especially in a structured environment like a school, struck me as odd, to say the…

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Athena

Mom of three boys. Computer programmer living in the country with my husband focusing on my hobbies and youngest son. https://ko-fi.com/athenaandrew