Disillusionment

The entry that I found more interesting and had the strongest reaction to was the one about the Teacher of the Year. It's hard not to take things personal in a workplace when everything feels so personal. I can only imagine how that teacher felt knowing that they were voted as Teacher of the Year, the teacher who was actually making a difference in the students' lives, only to be fired the next day. How does that make any sense? I understand that to be an effective teacher, your students don't necessarily have to like you, but I'd like to think that it sure does help. I don't think it's right that they gave this teacher an award while knowing they would be fired; I would have lied and just given it to someone else. It's like movies where the guy sleeps with the girl one last time before he breaks up with her. Or vise versa on the sexes. It's ridiculous and an economic depression is no reason to treat people like crap.