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  1. Victor Villaseñor _ Burro Genius: A Memoir

    Because, you see, a bad teacher, like Moses, the abusive English teacher that I had in Carlsbad, kills kids, here in the heart, and not just with their tests, but with their superior attitude and those sly smiles that they like to give to their A students, but never to the ones who are also working hard, or maybe even harder, like me, but just couldn't get it!"
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  2. Victor Villaseñor _ Burro Genius: A Memoir

    That's all we need, another drunk author.
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  3. Victor Villaseñor _ Burro Genius: A Memoir

    I don't care about periods or commas or misspellings at this time, even though this is English class. What I want to do is to get you so excited about reading and writing that the love of learning will be with you for the rest of your lives. I don't want to hinder your natural joy of wanting to venture into a world of books and writing and wanting to learn.
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  4. Victor Villaseñor _ Burro Genius: A Memoir

    teachers are no accident! You study to become a teacher! You work at it for years. So I cannot, and will not forgive teachers who are abusive, mean, and torture kids with commas and periods and misspelling, making them feel like they are less than human because they don't or can't seem to get it right.
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  5. Victor Villaseñor _ Burro Genius: A Memoir

    Because, you see, real teaching isn't just about teaching the brain up here," I said, hitting my forehead, "but it's also about inspiring your students to have heart…compassion, guts, understanding, and hope!
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