This story is an exploration of real-life events. It will be told in numerous installments, each one as brief as possible. 750 words exactly, per Literotica rules. From start to finish, each submission will be drafted, edited and submitted for publication within a 2 hour period. All individuals depicted are at least 18 years of age.
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It had been a brutal day. As a teacher, I adore my students and they astound me on a regular basis. This is the life of an educator who caters to affluent children whose parents can afford the more glamorous prep school in town. When you teach children whose parents wield the influential power of money, you are always at their mercy. Grades become a sham. Some kids are clever enough to get by by cheating. That I can respect. But those who cry to mommy and daddy when they get a generous C, knowing the administrators will hear of it and ask the child's test score be "reviewed," well that will destroy your will to get out of bed in the morning. My daily mantra is to remind myself that these foul cretins are a small minority. I do my best to focus on the brilliance of the majority that will earn their way to graduation and through life.
But as I said, it had been a brutal day. My mantra failed me. So when I crawled home after several hours of heated meetings with school administrators over right versus wrong, and funding for the new athletic complex, I was done. Not bothering to eat, I headed straight to the bedroom where my wife was already tucked in and reading her latest book. We chit-chatted a bit about the day, but these scenarios were growing so frequent, it just made her tense when she tried to lend an attentive ear. I could see the angst in her eyes. She was pained for me, to the point where she had occasionally begged me to quit. She reassured me that we could survive on her salary while I found another job, and she was right. As a junior attorney at a small firm in town, she wasn't going to make us rich, but her income was quite comfortable.