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Dear LFTP August 1, 2022 · 1:04:38 · 10 min

Dear LFTP: the teacher's-assistant wife

A listener writes that his wife, a teacher's assistant of ten years, is constantly berated by Mrs. Smith after raising concerns about other teachers; the principal and superintendent always side with the credentialed teachers, and he wants to confront the teacher himself but will not because it is his wife's job (seg-00625 to seg-00631). The hosts apply Occam's razor: the wife may have spoken above her pay grade and started a ruckus, and the husband has zero standing to 'bust up in somebody else's job' - 'you stay out of this, dude' (seg-00661 to seg-00671). Advice: she should either make amends and rebuild or leave; he should help her check whether she is the common denominator rather than galloping to her defense (seg-00672 to seg-00687). The Secular answer agrees: do not involve yourself; she should request a frank conversation or a different classroom (seg-00678 to seg-00681).

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