teacher dreams

Apparently every teacher has dreams about things going horribly wrong in their classroom. I did last night. It was my second day and for some reason another teacher was in my classroom. For some reason this other teacher was Robert Downey Jr. He had taken some time to look at what I had done on my first day, and in front of the entire class, he COMPLETELY humiliated me. He asked me WHAT I could POSSIBLY have been THINKING. You do NOT do THIS and you do NOT do THAT. And I don't know WHAT teacher in their RIGHT MIND would EVER read THIS to THIS kid....and on and on, you get the idea. At first I tried to defend myself but I couldn't. And soon the students were completely on his side, laughing at me. They were laughing at his sarcastic remarks about how stupid I was! It was horrible. Finally I just walked out of the room in a crying rage. He came out after me (apparently there was another teacher in the room to watch the kids). In the loudest whisper I could muster, and trying not to cry, I said, Well, is this what you wanted? To scare me away? Yesterday was my first day as a real teacher. That was my first time reading that book and my first time meeting those kids....He was apparently shocked and didn't know it was my first day. I asked him to come with me to the office. At which point I told someone about how he tore me apart in front of the class and how he was insulting and slandering me. Aren't those strong words? they asked. No, and here's my teaching partner (from real life) to verify what happened (because mysteriously she was there too). I was crying hysterically at this point.

Apparently Nathan rolled over, because I woke up crying, hardly able to breath.

So there you go. Maybe it does happen to everyone. At the very least I guess we should learn from our dreams. So, a word to the wise: if you are a teacher, and you see Robert Downey Jr, don't let him near your classroom.