Seriously, teachers get enough role-based antipathy from their students. Let’s unite in support of the overworked and underprivileged teachers: like nurses, it’s all too often a crappy job, but unless there were some poor saps out there willing to take it on, civilization as we know it would grind to a halt.

From the 50-Somethings Mom Blog:

First and foremost, teachers cannot select their raw materials. As my supervisor, Jerry Wadden, used to tell us at the beginning of each new school year,

“Our parents are sending us the best children they have. They are not hiding better ones at home in their closets.”

There is the idea that all children have an unlimited potential and if they are not meeting it, it’s the fault of their teachers. Somewhere in there personal responsibility and working hard on one’s own behalf seem to have disappeared completely. Believe me, if there was a way to insert knowledge and common sense into children by some other means than coercion, a teacher would have thought of it, and her administration would have taken credit for the idea.

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