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Well, I am really trying to avoid the hook, as Christine Kane tells me that I should. However, I am having some trouble with this one. The funny part is that I know that I am not really upset about this. It is just the small nagging feeling in the back of my head that says, well, what if I am?

I just had a meeting with my boss about my reappointment to my job for the upcoming year. I am a teacher, and I specifically teach tech writing. I was reappointed to the job, but some of the comments that I received from my colleagues were a little harsher than I anticipated. Two major concerns that people had about me were that my classes were too easy and that I am making a mistake having my students write anything to me specifically. I have thought about these two issues long before I had the meeting with my boss, so I am surprised that I am having this reaction at all. I guess that I am a little shocked. I have always prided myself on being a hard teacher, but I am not sure why it is a bad thing to be easy.

Another teacher for this course explained that my students create better work than other instructors’ students, so if my students are performing better, then why should I be upset that they have an easier time getting to that performance. We have a great deal of assignments to complete in a very short period of time, and I push them hard to create near perfect documents, but I give them lots of time to revise to create those near perfect documents.

Oh well. I guess that I shouldn’t be and am not all that upset about this particular piece of feedback because I don’t necessarily agree with the choices that are being made by these other instructors either, and it is our job to look at each other’s techniques. It is my job to not let myself be hooked.