It was an extreme mismatch. As a first-year teacher who had very little training to be a teacher, the students can sniff out that you don't know how to control the classroom. My way of being with children is a ton of listening, showing them love, letting them explore. Couldn't do that. There were moments where that happened. And I think the students felt that I just genuinely cared. That's where any of my success came from. Other than that, I had to be at that school by 7 a.m. And be there until 4.30 ish. So my days were long and I'll say the moment when I realized this was not for me

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