| I love academy stories. I love the camaraderie they encourage. I love the setting for a coming-of-age story. That can-do spirit. Young love! They're all so great. I hate how the teachers are portrayed. They're either bad guys out to get the students or good guys who chuckle at the suffering at the hands of the bad guys. And at the end of the day, they're all incompetent. You telling me a wizard with decades of experience can't outsmart a student with an invisibility cloak? So, as a former student who had plenty of great teachers and as a former teacher who gave my all to my students, I've written an academy story from the other side: the dreaded teacher! |