I ran into a student and his parents at Ikea, one day.

The student teacher relationship is in a constant state of flux. But it is a slow flux. The bumps and vagaries of daily in and outs are not nearly as important as the overall meta-curriculum that over arches the years of student teacher interaction. It is this long handed view that I have in mind when I think of the relationship, certainly not the constant flux of the in and out.