Chapter 9 of Fires in the Bathroom focused on one of my greatest fears – what happens if something goes wrong in the classroom? The examples that the chapter gave ranged from school skipping to actual fires in the bathroom. The example that stuck out to me was when a conductor shouted to the drummers, who were playing too loud, “We’re not in Africa.”
I’m greatly interested in music, and may be interested in music education. I was shocked that this happened, and think that no matter what’s going wrong, the teacher always has to be on top of things and in control of his own emotions. Trying to make a racial joke to alleviate a situation is by no means a healthy response, and the conductor should have apologized right away.
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