Mrs. Meechem keeps teaching

Mrs. Meechem keeps teaching

fiction
edward w pritchard

After her thirty years were up as a teacher Mrs. Meechem just kept teaching. She didn't retire and she didn't kick back. She didn't negotiate and politicize any longer to get easy classes to teach or good kids to fill her rooms. Mrs. Meechem just took it as it came. In time Mrs. Meechem the teacher stopped dreading going to work and Mrs. Meechem stopped comparing one student to the other and one fellow teacher to the other and as she became less judgmental and premeditated about her job she became closer to the students, connected to her fellow teachers and surprisingly she drew the approval of the administration.

Not this, not that, no longer judging, her actions completly open, no longer caring about reward , offering without waiting for conformation of receipt, Mrs. Meechem went about her days.