ditto!

Thank you from a seventeen year veteran teacher :) :) :)

Well said!

Amen and Amen!!!

It's sad that someone like that, making what he makes doesn't get it. And even more sad that they don't do something to get more pay for the teachers that are educating our future.

Well said....though I'm not a teacher I could't agree more. As a retired RN. I can tell you we need more like you. Unbeleivable to me was the inability of my patients to converse in a civil manner or vocalize their concerns.
Then some could not read......even with a high school degree.. Who hands these things out?!!

Good to hear this - very tired "grading" the work I "MADE" the students complete to demonstrate skills acquired.

100% true and I thank God for the great teachers that help me 'see' the world through books and exchange of ideas. It would be a very poor place without teachers dedicated to the education of our children.

I sent this to my kindergarten teacher daughter.

Another retired teacher - You said it Jodie. I have seen this before and really become agitated when people downgrade teachers and so many say it isn't a profession. WRONG it is a profession and without teachers most of the other "successful" people in business or life wouldn't be where they are now without their teachers!!!! We did and have made a difference in every child's life that came through our class. People do not learn through osmosis, they must be taught - to walk, talk, listen and learn!!!
I always took the time very consuming though it were to grade every paper I gave my students. I always felt that if I expected them to complete the work given, they definitely deserved my time to check their work. Over the years I saw toooo many teachers give work to their students, only to throw most of the papers in file 13, because they were toooo lazy to grade or even look at the work.
I taught in several areas, resource, math and reading, 5th grade regular classroom, and finally 1st grade which I considered the toughest of all, but spent my last 21 years of teaching as a first grade teacher. After I retired in 2004, I taught for 5 years as a tutorial math teacher in 4th & 5th grade.