So we know teachers… we are wrong
So We Know Teachers We are Wrong: Great article find!
I am reposting this article because it is one of the best pieces of writing I have seen describing American attitudes about teachers and the teaching profession. Please read and share widely!…. I am posting an excerpt below. The original article appears here on a blog, parentingthecore, written by mom and former teacher, Sarah Blaine’s.
So We Know Teachers We are Wrong: The Teachers
by Sarah Blaine
“We all know what teachers do, right? After all, we were all students. Each one of us, each product of public education, we each sat through class after class for thirteen years. We encountered dozens of teachers. We had our kindergarten teachers and our first grade teachers and our fifth grade teachers and our gym teachers and our art teachers and our music teachers. We had our science teachers and our social studies teachers and our English teachers and our math teachers. If we were lucky, we might even have had our Latin teachers or our Spanish teachers or our physics teachers or our psychology teachers. Heck, I even had a seventh grade “Communications Skills” teacher. We had our guidance counselors and our principals and some of us had our special education teachers and our study hall monitors.
So we know teachers. We get teachers. We know what happens in classrooms, and we know what teachers do. We know which teachers are effective, we know which teachers left lasting impressions, we know which teachers changed our lives, and we know which teachers sucked.
We know. We know which teachers changed lives for the better. We know which teachers changed lives for the worse.
Teaching as a profession has no mystery. It has no mystique. It has no respect.”
Read more here.
Go back home.
Then, do something. Thank a teacher.
