for Whitney

Posted by beth on November 15, 2007

I was telling Whitney this story earlier, and she requested that I post it for you all. So here it is in Reader’s Digest Condensed version.

When I told one of my students yesterday that the class had been canceled, she was very upset with me. Yes, me personally. She said (and this is a direct quote), “You couldn’t have called me? I gave you my number. What? You just don’t care? Is that it?” Now, it was unclear whether she wanted me to have called her to tell her the class was canceled so she wouldn’t have wasted her hour coming to class that day (which, incidentally, is a 3-hour class), or if she thought that if I truly cared, I would have been calling her every time she missed class to invite her to come back. In either of those situations, if not calling equals not caring, then yeah…I guess I just don’t care. That must be it.