Last month I reflected on the best days of my 25-year teaching career. You can read about that HERE.

But it should be no surprise that not all days were great. What might be a surprise is that the worst days had absolutely nothing to do with my classes or with my students. The worst days were thanks to administrators and fellow professors and instructors. Those were the days of charges of racism and sexual harassment, of lawsuits, of spying, of cruel gossip, of corruption. That, however, is a subject for another day. 

Right now, I want to focus on my four worst days in the classroom.

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