Well, I have been a member of EC since 2009 and many of you know me well enough. And I tell you, before joining EC I searched through all the network. There is no site like this! I am happy and proud of being one of its members. There were active and passive periods of my being EC member, but I have always been aware of what is going on here. I believe, you don't think I am postng this blog because Danny is my husband. I am posting it as we both are teachers.
Teachers are to teach and they invest all their lives in the process of education hoping to see students gain knowledge. But when we feel indifference of our students or their desire to use the knowledge they got to make everything worse than it is, we get frustrated, disappointed and even angree.
Knowlege and common sense are light and power, while their absence is darkness and helplessness.
I will not ask you why you killed my husband with your indifference. He had been killed by his university before. Danny is one of the best teachers I have ever seen. He has been cut out for teaching. I am a teacher, too but if I were a man, I would take off my hat before his capabilitiy of understanding his students and explaining their mistakes in his way! You should have heard his lectures!
And I wonder you made him leave.
So, it is OK, but my man is suffering because of being killed with your indiffernce. He would gladly die fighting for his ideas but he can't stand indifference to learning.
Please, don't kill great teachers! You will feel sorry for that sooner or later!
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Hello, Tanya
I have seen good people leaving MyEC. Not only teachers but also many keen learners. I cannot blame anyone for this phenomenon. Teachers are humans not saints; they could feel frustrated and undervalued. However, we cannot control MyEC members' behavior just like we cannot always control our emotions.
To be honest I am not an active member but once in a while I pay a visit to this website, and whenever I saw Danny's name mentioned as one of the top members, I felt relieved. I was like "Thanks God he is still here", and I promised to myself I would write something and ask him to check my grammar. I have written a paragraph and asked Danny to check it. I felt amused by Danny's wit :D. But as I said I am not an active member and I am still fighting with my severe disease "procrastination". So, I haven't had anything new for Danny to review... And now he's gone. I won't cry for him. I cannot force people to come back just to feel the same pain. Maybe his leaving is for good. But if he feels better later, it would be great if he deigns to come back and be a teacher again.
Cyber world is vicious sometimes. So, we should not invest our emotion in it too much. And one more thing, the people we are dealing with are the millennials! or those who have blended themselves into the culture of millennials. :D
Send my best regard to Denny :)
Bet, you can write him, no problem. I am just happy he has something to do! I just wanted to say that all the questions on our group will be answered
Dear Bet, whenever you like and enjoy your Ramadan. My best regards to your family!
Dear Muskan, a storm of applause from here! I know you are a teacher and you realize what we mean. Don't delete your comment, please!
One mistake in previous comment *Field.
Also sorry Tanya I just couldn't stop replying to Mary but if you don't want me to make such comment here I can remove it.
Mary your replay made me laugh. I made a little changes in yours (just using a new person there) and then posted my thoughts for this all. I hope you will see how bitter you were when you will read in this scenario. Cause what you are saying for Danny is very true at a point but then you should not skip other people with same mistake as well.
Sorry English Learner (I know you as well), but Nof*ckingway! I'm getting a bit "angree" too reading your LEAVING AND COMING BACK DRAMA.
I think we are grown-ups here, not toddlers, right? Then I think we are the only responsibles of our own decisions. I'm sorry but you can't come here blaming anybody for Evangelina's decision. Nobody is 'killing' anybody, Evangelina commited the hara-kiri herself... Or it happens that you guys don't post blogs here just because you want to but because you love praises and recognition?? You guys really need people here licking your asses for coming to do something that you're supposed to love/like to do??
I'm thinkin' now about my work and why I do what i do, for trying to understand your point but I'm sorry... I can't: I do my work (drawing) 'cause I can't help it. I love it. I can't do anything else and I don't f*cking care how many ppl like it or not, I will never stop doing it. That's the point: Do what you love to do, no matter what.
But in any case, if I was so stupid to stop drawing 'cause people were 'indiferent' to my drawings... How could I blame anybody but myself??!! We are the only responsibles of these kind of decisions. If you decide to give up just for that, then probably you weren't doing it 'cause you loved it, but because you just wanted to feed your stupid ego.
Sorry if you don't like my comment, but I'm just being honest here. Just like you and Evangelina always claim to be.
Thanks.
I never saw a cartoonist compering him/herself with a teacher. This was most ridiculous analogy so far. A teacher needs respect I will not teach in a school where student harass me. But if I am a cartoonist I know people gonna rant when they will be disagreeing and that will be okay. You can’t compare challenges of your filed to a teacher’s. And this place really needs teachers. So please I respect you Mary but I expect that you should not disrespect a person who was helping people here.
Dear Rose, I said I understood what you meant. It is quite clear. No problem!
Dear Muskan, thanks for your nice comment. Let me tell you that I am not going to make any drama of Dan's decision. He is a tough, reckless guy but it is him who will face the consequences of his decision. As to me, I wanted to remind our members of the original goal of this site. To make EC a regular social network is a crime toward its founders and toward their ideas. When I came across this site about 8 years ago I couldn't believe my eyes! I had never seen anything like that! I was at the very beginning and EC was different that time. People really wanted to learn and there were many teachers willing to share their knowledge. But it is so very different now and I am really sorry. I can only imagine what Josef feels reading our blogs!
Thanks for your great comment!
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