Somewhere in your neighborhood tonight ....

[Scuba]

[seveneyes]

1. Thanks, and consider it passed on to others

Including my favorite kind of people...teachers!

[raccoon]

2. K&R. nt

[roody]

3. Some are at school preparing the

classroom for the next day. Weekends also.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

26. I just entered all my grades on the online system

took me 4 hours. battled with the online system. We have old, slow computers with Win XP (actually I like the old XP instead of the evil Win 8.1) but XP doesn't easily support the software. It is supposed to sync with another system and it hasn't grrr!

I spend hours after school at home. I have a lot of paperwork for special ed. My hourly rate is realistically well below the minimum wage.

I forgot - teachers are the enemy of the right.

[newfie11]

4. One of those is my daughter

Who teaches in SD. The state with the lowest teacher salary in the USA.

[RebelOne]

19. My daughter is also a teacher in South Florida.

She grades papers weekends and nights. And then she has to deal with her middle school students during the day. Teachers' salaries are not high enough to deal with all the stress. My daughter earned her master's degree last year, but it only upped her yearly salary by $3000.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

27. If it makes any difference, she's probably teaching kids who will probably remember what she is

teaching and her for the rest of their lives.

[KansDem]

5. I've had good teachers and a few bad ones...

But, as I believe I can differentiate between the two using critical thinking skills is a testament to all teachers...

[Scuba]

6. Well said.

[progressoid]

7. Rec for my parents - retired teachers.

And my brother. RIP.

[Chipper Chat]

8. While in college I lived with my aunt & uncle (both teachers).

Often I would wake up at 1am and find my uncle, a math teacher, still grading papers!

[kentauros]

9. I appreciate my sister,

the grade-4 teacher

[wiggs]

10. my wife is at school for at least 10 hours a day, and

averages an hour or two each night afterwards and 6 to 8 hours on the weekend. doesn't include her attendance at school concerts, performances, sports events.....no one I know works harder.

High school art teacher.

[shebornik]

11. You have described my wife and her coworkers to a T.

I wish all the parents out there Knew how much the majority of teachers give to their profession. Thanks for posting.

[ANOIS]

12. Former teacher here.

[leftstreet]

13. DURec

[bvar22]

14. DURec from a family of teachers.

[Trailrider1951]

15. Both of my children married teachers

They chose well.

[grantcart]

16. and their spouse is relieved that they weren't assaulted and arrived home safe.

[Scurrilous]

17. K & R

[Link Speed]

18. My heroes have always been teachers

Having never attended any school, my eyes were opened wide when my kids started school.

[gopiscrap]

20. that would be my wife

[Thucydides]

21. Those would be some of my mentors!

[Skittles]

22. not right to assume us non-teachers just sit around watching TV

I for one do not, and by the way I stay up ALL NIGHT, EVERY NIGHT

edited to add: YES I APPRECIATE TEACHERS

[Thucydides]

31. Teachers come in many forms Skittles!

You just have your own curriculum!

[irisblue]

23. teachers

I have fur kids only. I know some where today a teacher is working on a science project that will grab 2/3/5/9 kids attention. one of those kids may become my moms doctor, may be the doctor who catches my nephew/niece when she is born, may be the doctor who helps me when I'm 83. I OWE the future the same chance I had.

[hue]

24. K&R for Teachers of all kinds at all levels!!

[littlewolf]

25. talking about my wife.

can not count the number of recitials, concerts, plays
and sporting events I go to with my wife, because "her" kids
are in it. she teaches 1st grade.

[Uncle Joe]

28. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Scuba.

[blkmusclmachine]

29. Even when the parents are watching Faux Nooz.

[Enthusiast]

30. Kicked and recommended.

I agree with the OP. But someone, somewhere along the line, has decided we must denigrate our teachers, call them greedy and blame them for our educational shortcomings. This someone also wants to transform education into a for-profit enterprise.

If you believe you are exempt from this kind of slander and abuse because you are not a teacher, just wait. Today it is teachers and postal workers, tomorrow it is the rest of us.

Martin Niemöller (1892-1984), a prominent Protestant pastor who emerged as an outspoken public foe of Adolf Hitler and spent the last seven years of Nazi rule in concentration camps.

"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me."