I couldn’t believe what my student was telling me…
“Wow, that was a fun and challenging class. I mean, clearly, you’re strong but you’re still a chubby teacher.”
Excuse me?
How is this relevant to your experience as a student or as to my abilities as a teacher?
After I got over the initial upset of someone commenting at all on my body, and after I dealt with why I was feeling so triggered, it highlighted a few things that bothered me even more than being called “fat”…
