Haley Jones

And I was like, no, ma'am.

She's like, what's your favorite math standard?

And I was like, well, actually, I'm not familiar with the math standards.

And then she's like, and I obviously had no idea what I'm doing.

I answer all that, and she goes, you're hired.

Red fucking flag.

Okay.

I was like, I just literally basically said, I don't know what the hell I'm doing.

Like put me in front of kids, you know?

So anyways, I should have known.

Um, and like, anyway, so that all started this, the realization that like for those kids that I was teaching, um,

they were in survival mode i mean there was like massive poverty there was just gang stuff going on i mean one day i hear you hear like helicopters and my students were like oh we're getting shot at again and i was like what they're like yeah this is normal like and you're just like um this is different yeah so anyways all that to say here i am trying to be like this is what a exponential function is like let's solve quadratic equations like

And here I am like, Oh, let's solve equations.

And it's like, so that was kind of my first dip into this idea of like, we're really doing a disservice.

Like we have these kids here with us, but we don't even, we're not even serving what they need.

And in a sense, you know, I do think education is important, but also it's like, you cannot like overlook, um,

like what's happening in a kid's life.

You can't like, that's not going to be helpful, you know?

So anyway.

Yeah, I think I just have this, I mean, I think, well, I honestly think that a lot of my resilience comes from, you know, when I have, you know, the massive story of like weight struggle and being 240 pounds.