Why I Do Not Write about Teaching · 12 April 2025
After I wrote about maybe writing about teaching, coaching, and mentoring, I thought about why I have not done much of it. The reason is that I do not really like to get in trouble.
Okay. I would probably not get into trouble writing about teaching, coaching, and mentoring. Probably. But you never know. After all, we all say stuff and do stuff that is probably appropriate when given the full context of a situation. But no story could ever give the full context of any story. Which is why I have only written about innocuous stuff. Stuff that nobody would take exception to. Of course, nowadays, who knows what people take exception to?
Which is probably why I have not written much about teaching, coaching, and mentoring. After all, people take exception to many things these days. They take exception to the clothes we wear. They take exception to the clothes we do not wear. They take exception to the words we use. They take exception to the words we do not use. People get offended at the most innocuous things. Oh sure, they get offended at things that are offensive too, but those seem to be the exception. (Somebody will probably get offended by this paragraph.)
Now that I am a couple paragraphs into this piece, I figure that it will probably not see the light of day. After all, I am not a political beast. I do not have the stomach for it. Nor the seemingly fluid ethics that go with politics. And even though people say that any publicity is good publicity, I am inclined to disagree. Writers getting in trouble for being insensitive to their readers is just not something I want to do. Of course, it does make a difference that I have only a few readers. But still, I do not want to turn those few away.
Well, that is about it for this post. It is going nowhere fast. But that is okay. I really do not want to offend people. Nor do I want to get in trouble for the things I have done or the things I have not done in my classroom or on the field. Not that I can point to anything that would raise the ire of anybody. But who knows? People get mad for just about anything these days.
Which is why (as much as I would like to oblige), after much consideration, I will probably not be writing too much about teaching, coaching, and mentoring. At least not yet.
(Sorry, Dale.)
© 2025 Michael T. Miyoshi
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