When you’re a school teacher, you have a lot of rules imposed on you by your school district or the school board. Some schools strictly dictate everything a teacher can wear, say about their personal lives, and use to decorate their classroom. The academic teachers I had always seemed to follow a strict set of boundaries with their students, whether personally imposed or done so by the school. However in my experience, the coaches and the arts teachers were always the ones who went most off the rails in decorum. A middle school theatre teacher told me I was «unprofessional» because I cried (as if a 14-year-old should be professional). Coaches would openly favor the more athletic children when they taught their history classes. I was constantly battling with my choir teacher to take the art of singing as seriously as he wanted me to, which was pretty difficult because he wanted me to be as passionate as someone who had dedicated their life and career to it.