At Her New Teaching Job

A soft tapping echoed through the halls as Anna was lead around by a very well dressed woman wearing a red blazer, knee-length skirt, and matching heeled dress shoes. Anna was dressed similarly, in a black suit-dress, with a bag slung over her shoulder. After saying her goodbyes to family, Anna finally relocated to her new teaching job in the Canary Islands. The job was described as a school situated in a remote location for students in the last year of learning to gain unique and focused education before moving along to the greater world of continued education.

The school was financed by several companies who sought to eventually hire the students who were able to qualify and attend the school. Given complete funding from unbiased corporate, this freed the school from most obligations to let in students from more distinguished backgrounds and instead focus purely on raw talent available. The school Anna was planning to teach at would have the best of the best minds available to teach and prosper, a job Anna was sure only reserved for the very best and most qualified of educators.

Which is why, Anna asked the older woman leading her around a very blunt question.

“Why did you hire me?” Anna questioned. There were no hang-ups. No hidden strings Anna could see from their nearly ended tour of the small campus that would warrant hiring someone fresh out of college for a school which paid the worst of teachers six figures.

The older woman merely stopped and turned around with an innocent smile. “Anna, I don’t think you’ve been made aware of this, but all of our hires in the past decade are educators with no legitimate experience. We shifted to this hiring strategy, because we wanted uncut and untouched minds fresh from the most recent classes. We only hire the one we believe based on our research is the greatest fit for our institution. You happened to be the most qualified, according to what all our information had to offer. You earned your position, there’s no secret hoop you have to jump through or anything. Just show up every day and keep students on task.

With her question answered, the two finished their tour of the building. Anna smiled, as her eagerness to begin her first teaching job took hold.