Say there's a new teacher in middle school. She's quite nervous because this is her first real job, and she doesn't know what to expect.
The classmates see that she's nervous, and a few of them find it humorous.
Her viewpoint and story: She starts out by asking them to turn to page x of their textbooks. She wants to be friendly with the class because she's new and thinks that they're all nice children, so she starts talking about her pet cat.
Immediately one of the children berate her for doing so, and they call her names and throw things at her. She just tries to ignore it. Why would the children do this? Why are they being so cruel to her? She didn't do anything. She tried to even talk to some of them to make friends with them.
She sat down and cried at her desk when the class was over.
The children's viewpoint and story: There's a new woman at class, and she doesn't look like she enjoys to be there at all. She's stuttering, she's avoiding eye contact and she's even trying to talk about her cat. Everyone gets the impression that she doesn't like any one of them.
One of the kids there decide to shut her up by telling her to. She just ignores him completely like an idiot. From then on, she's shaking and mispronouncing words, you can tell that she is freaking out and that she's an amateur. I mean, what kind of idiot can't teach in middle school?
The children decide that she's obviously stupid. They start throwing paper wads at her and calling her stupid. Why? Because they're right. Who in the right mind lets these people teach, anyways?
No wonder teachers get lousy pays.
Which side sounds more correct?
