Hypatia. Once I started thinking... (This is a weekend for poking at my fears with a far-too-short stick, isn't it?)
I don't know that I ever told you about the interview process, really. But the point at which I knew I'd say yes, if they offered, was when I walked into the room with the other candidates, and listened to how they talked.
So many people look at our students as dolls. Pawns. Pieces to be moved around, or ignored, or whatever's convenient. Not just the halfbloods, though they come in for a lot of it, but everyone. Or everyone but their own personal special connections.
Hypatia knows I mess up - and will again, I'm sure, and certainly stretch myself thin.
But I hope there's something in seeing them as individuals, of looking not at what's easiest for me, but best for them. I'm not the only person who could do that, mind. And I find I'm unwilling to hand things over to anyone who'd do less.
Re: Private message to Raz
I don't know that I ever told you about the interview process, really. But the point at which I knew I'd say yes, if they offered, was when I walked into the room with the other candidates, and listened to how they talked.
So many people look at our students as dolls. Pawns. Pieces to be moved around, or ignored, or whatever's convenient. Not just the halfbloods, though they come in for a lot of it, but everyone. Or everyone but their own personal special connections.
Hypatia knows I mess up - and will again, I'm sure, and certainly stretch myself thin.
But I hope there's something in seeing them as individuals, of looking not at what's easiest for me, but best for them. I'm not the only person who could do that, mind. And I find I'm unwilling to hand things over to anyone who'd do less.