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When personal gratitude complicates professional accountability

My daughter's teacher gave her an undeserved grade and I could complain, but this woman helped us through my divorce and job loss.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Past kindness can make present advocacy for fairness feel like ungrateful betrayal.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Justice and forgiveness — the tension?”

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