Reply #6: I worked as a nurse in the Head Start Program, dual certified to teach.

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I can absolutely say those teachers were the most remarkable, special dedicated people I have ever known anywhere. I took a lot of work home of my own throughout my time there, but nothing compared to the time they had to invest every day. I would have to say the same thing about my own mother, who taught for her lifetime as a remedial reading specialist.

Maybe if those people worked 75 hours a week, with no extra pay, are required to take continuing education on their own time or be fired, and have their bosses and their clients/customers continually badger them about how lazy they are, and how their job could be done by a retarded chimpanzee. On top of that, they need to have their pay cut, benefits cut and made more expensive, and have more expectations put on them. Maybe then they would understand how teachers feel.

Well said.


K & R.