kaitlyn_sun
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Kelly straightened her glasses as she walked across the teacher’s parking lot, her purse and her briefcase both slung over one shoulder, but still keeping a brisk pace in her heels. When she had first started student teaching, one of the older teachers had admonished her for the heels she wore in the classroom, saying that it was inappropriate. She had countered by saying that not only was that an outdated idea about women’s clothing and that she could wear whatever she wanted as long as it was professional, but that it only made SENSE for her to wear heels; She was barely five three, and had to struggle to get her weight up to an hundred and fifteen pounds. If she was going to be teaching high school english, she needed all the height advantage she could get.
The weather was still holding onto that last bit of warmth from the summer, but it was clear that autumn was on them. There was a briskness to the air, and that unmistakeable autumn smell. Kelly got cold easily, so she was sure to wear a cardigan over her white blouse and pencil skirt during class, and a longer coat for the outdoors.
She entered the building, greeting a few of the students that waved to her. She wasn’t the newest teacher in the school anymore, but she was close. She had been there for four years, having started as a substitute after she had finished her bachelor's degree and gotten her certification. She was incredibly fortunate to have a position open up in her school like this; ordinarily when you were applying for a high school teaching position you were competing against people with master's degrees. Thankfully, she had made a really good impression on the principal and school board with her love for the subject and her well prepared and executed lesson plans, and they had agreed to grant her the position while she worked on her masters. It actually paid much better than a lot of the associate professorships at the collegiate level. If she continued to do well here, the someday the students might be calling her DOCTOR Vaughn.
She turned down the hallway, her heels making a smart little ‘klak klak’ with each step. She passed one of the bathrooms, and as always made sure she walked on the opposite side of the hall, lest any of the kids hanging out in there decide to make some sort of ridiculous scene. If there was any downside to teaching high school, it was the delinquent kids. She had a few in some of her classes, and had absolutely no patience for them. She loved and embraced and nurtured the kids that were there to learn, but she had no intention of being one of the teachers that tried to reach out to the loser kids and help them figure themselves out. These kids were teenagers, practically adults. She had no sympathy for the ones that didn’t want to try. She didn’t need it; she was 27, less than a decade older than some of them. She remembered being their age, and knew they could handle it if they wanted to.
She came to her classroom, unlocked it, and flipped the lights on. It was an odd room; most of the other teachers didn’t want it, but she loved it. A little bit of a lecture hall, there were three rows of amphitheatered risers going to the back, all curving around her central part of the room like a stage. Her desk sat off to the side, where she kept a long table that she used for different presentations and projects. Behind her was her large white board, currently with the different assignments her various classes were working on, as well as her ‘quote of the week’, a little thing she did to get the kids thinking about the beauty of language. Above the board was a large white wall… most of the walls were covered in posters from different classic books, but this space was empty, since the room had a large overhead projector mounted in the back. She used it to show clips from movies based on classic books for the kids that were more visual learners.
She set down her briefcase and purse on her desk, pulling off her coat and hanging it in the closet behind her desk, putting her purse in behind it. She opened her briefcase, and took out her laptop, plugging it in at her desk and clipping in the HDMI cable that would sink it to the projector. She turned it on, and tested out the video she had cued up. The kids were working on book reports for Richard III, and she wanted to show them some scenes from the Ian McKellan movie.
She bit her lip as she worked, idly crossing her legs under her desk. Shakespeare was part of the curriculum, but she had specifically chosen Richard III because it was one of her favorite plays. Still, as she thought about it, about the way Richard lied and murdered his way to the crown for no reason other than because he just wanted to be a villain, it made her think of Ian. They had broken up almost two months ago now, and she still couldn’t believe she had put up with him for so long. Not just ‘put up with’, she thought glumly, swallowing at the humiliating memory of the things they had done, that she had even let him FILM, for god sakes. Knowing what a snake he had turned out to be, all she could do is just be grateful that it was over. She had started talking with a really nice guy at her gym. Everything was turning out for the better. She just had to stop letting it bother her.
The early bell sounded, telling kids that they had a half hour to get to their homerooms. She straightened her glasses again, getting her notes together for the day.
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