The Infuriating Smile [img=/assets/blog/200712/41605smile_icon_set.jpg F:L]Check out this post I read from a former TFA teacher via Joanne Jacobs about how one teacher finally figured out that kids in his classroom weren't disrespecting him if they [url=http://thetrenches.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-bad-kids-smile.html]smiled when they got into trouble[/url]. It was a different kind of smile, developed in response to a different culture. That seems right to me -- both the initial frustration with the reaction and the eventual realization that it might not be so confrontational. But then again, I'm known to smile during fights -- nervousness, I think -- which makes the people I'm fighting with even angrier. Or is this Urban Teaching 101?
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Fri Dec 7, 2007 at 7:52 PM
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Read Rudyard Kippling he answers your question quite nicely
Read Rudyard Kippling he answers your question quite nicely
Sat Dec 8, 2007 at 5:09 AM
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That smile is not a "cultural difference." It's a class and power difference. The TFA thread is too brief to know more about the people posting, so I'll stop with one observation. Members of an occupying army in a foreign lang see that smile all the time. Ask veterans of Vietnam or Irag/ Afghanistan. So do many cops across the USA (not all). You can guess where.
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