That teacher was actually pretty horrible. Like seriously? Mistreats the child the entire year (even says she's not good enough to be a princess, like I get it was an accident, but SERIOUSLY!? You said that TO A LITTLE GIRL!?) and then manages to completely forget she's leaving and make her feel horrible...Like when the narrator was was talking about when the teacher said she really, really liked her, that "she may have even meant the opposite." Yeah, I agree. I think your teacher actually kinda hated you lol.
Damn tho...such a good little girl...the world needs more children like this one...
I did not see it that way at all. Have you ever taught a class full of preschoolers? Or even sat in on one? That shit is hard. You find yourself racking your brain the entire day trying to make every kid happy and by the end you are completely spent. There is a moment when most forget about the last child when they are on to the next because each [child] has an individual thought process on how things should be. It's just like dealing with a mass of adults. If you have one that makes it impossible until they get their way and another that doesn't seem to mind compromise you are going to tend to lean on the nonconfrontational to fix the situation. And when she said "She may have even meant the opposite" I see it as that rush of emotion one gets when you are really happy but don;t quite know how sort it in you mind. Sort of like the ping pong effect: "Does she really lie me or is she just saying it because she's my teacher?" Honestly, if the teacher didn't give a flying whoop I doubt she would have showed up at the child's house late that night.
That's just me, though. I really did find this little piece to be cute. It reminded me as a kid (and now actually). I was always the one that wanted to make others happy before myself. :)
