Inviting the author to the school to talk to students is one thing. The apparently popular "write to an author you admire and pour guilt on them in the hopes they will write back" assignment is a terrible idea
Even if some of those kids are potentially passionate future teachers and you want to help, if you’ve got a ton of grading due and departmental emails to answer and a field trip to chaperone, you likely won’t be able to reply in the timeframe.
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Now imagine you become so well known for these purposes that every year, over the same set of months, you receive multiple emails from students all asking for your time. Every year. Because each teacher asking their kids to do this thinks they’re the only ones, but they’re NOT.
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Imagine the pressure you’d feel to reply, knowing what an impact you could potentially have, positive or negative, even though you *literally don’t have time*. Maybe you can reply to one, but which one? How do the unanswered kids feel if they learn you answered someone else?
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