You are not a cynical, horrible excuse for a compassionate human being. You are paid to teach, you are not paid to be a social worker or crisis interventionist, and you did exactly the right thing by passing the info on.
Whatever you may believe is true personally, your professional action was, in my opinion, exactly right and reasonable. And hey -- we've all concocted/encountered fabulous fibs. People in trouble often deserve a certain amount of true sympathy -- and a certain amount of true disdain, too, I feel...
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Date: 2007-11-21 07:20 am (UTC)Whatever you may believe is true personally, your professional action was, in my opinion, exactly right and reasonable. And hey -- we've all concocted/encountered fabulous fibs. People in trouble often deserve a certain amount of true sympathy -- and a certain amount of true disdain, too, I feel...