Reply #73: welcome to DU! And good for you!

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Good luck in grad school and in your career! :hug:

I absolutely adore teachers. My kids have had a few duds (and even then, I understand that their teachers were doing the best they could--I would have had a nervous breakdown after about a week if I had their jobs, with kids that don't listen, and NCLB, etc), but the good ones... oh, I couldn't possibly say enough about them. They are WONDERFUL. They will always have a warm place in our hearts.

It's such a challenging and frustrating job, but I hope good teachers know how fondly they are remembered for the rest of their students' lives. They really do make such a big difference--maybe not to all their students, but to many of them. I'm so grateful to my kids' teachers, and to my own, too.