Word: bertha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Burnout. It can happen as easily at the blackboard as in the boardroom. "There are days when I go home with a migraine," says Chicago's Bertha. "It's a stressful job." Especially for those who work with learning- disabled or troubled children. Last spring, after three years of teaching special ed, Michael Pugliese asked to be reassigned to a regular classroom. "When you give your all, and there's no hope -- that's too much," he says...
...inspiring subject of the movie Stand and Deliver. But in small towns and sprawling cities there surely are people like him, each a miracle worker in his or her own way. Teachers say the best of them are born, not made. Perhaps they are right. Several years ago, Patrice Bertha took a sabbatical to see whether she really wanted to spend the rest of her life in the classroom. She wound up tutoring at home instead. "I really missed it," she says. "That's when I told myself, 'You're a teacher forever...
Karla: Benjamin! What courage! ((Benjamin, 1, has climbed up the wooden slide for the first time.)) That's like climbing Mount Everest! That's how you conquer the world, that's right! That's how you do it! ((Bertha takes a photograph of Benjamin...
Steven: Hey, Bersa! ((He spits two marbles out of his mouth and gives them to Bertha...
...Bertha ((laughing)): That's house keys and a big tray of leftover spinach...