...happened yesterday, when I was giving my students some biographical information on Toni Morrison before they begin reading Beloved.
"Didn't she win the Nobel Prize?" one of my students piped up.
"Yes, she did," I affirmed. "And the Pulitzer."
"The Nobel? Hey, isn't that what Soandso's dad won?" another student chimed in.
"Who?" I inquired.
"Oh, some kid who used to go to school here."
Sometimes, the world in which I teach is not necessarily the world in which I live.
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I used to teach in a world that was remarkably unlike that in which I live. I miss it. Or rather, I miss having my students whip out their checkbook and offer to write me a check when I sigh wistfully that I would love to travel to their home country in Asia. I never actually took anyone up on it, but I have some nice jewelery that their families bought for me!
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