Tina was going back to school for her third master’s degree. She was a Special Education teacher, but she couldn’t take her job anymore, so she had quit. The kids were _ 1 control. There were too many of them in one classroom for her to manage effectively. The school administration ignored her pleas to add teacher assistants. They ignored her 2 that some of the kids were simply little monsters. They were discipline problems that other teachers had shunted off to Special Education. The administration didn’t even 3 to her complaint that one oversized young student had _ 4 her down one day onto the floor. Tina wanted to call the police, but the school principal 5 her out of it with promises to improve things. Two weeks _ 6 , not one promise had been fulfilled. Tina angrily visited the principal, who told her that if she didn’t have the patience to wait for things to improve, maybe she wasn’t _ 7 to be a teacher. “How dare you! The issue is not whether I’m cut out to be a teacher,” she angrily replied. “I am a teacher, and a damn good one. But no teacher can 8 forever with inadequate supplies, with overcrowded classrooms, with students who are dumped into her class, and with students who attack her. And especially,” she growled, “with idiots 9 you in 10 who continually ignore the needs of Special Education students and teachers.”