“I had students who were bigger than me, who’d been held back a few years, and I had kids who’d get up in my face and threaten me, but I never got scared,” he recalls. “And even when the kids were cursing me out, I’d have a sense of humor about it. They’d say ‘Don’t let me see you in the ’hood, Mr. Koenig,’ and I’d turn it into something surreal like ‘Where is this ’hood?’” — Ezra Koenig sharing his teaching experience (via teamvampireweekend)

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