School is starting soon and as the parent of a student you might want to consider sending flowers to your child's teacher. It can be done anonymously so that you can avoid any suggestion of bribery or brown nosing (as it was called in my day). However a gift of flowers or a lovely back-to-school gift basket can be a powerful life to the spirit of the person who will be guiding the education of your child.
As a friend and relative of a couple of school teachers I can tell you that they pretty much have a thankless job. For one thing, just because school is out for the summer, does not mean that they also enjoy a vacation. Many of these dedicated educators spend the summer on the lookout for new items to take to school in the fall to stimulate their class's interest.
They also go back to school early to prepare their classroom and to put up fresh decorations (especially in the elementary grades), banners and posters. In some schools, if they want a new wall color, they have to do the painting themselves!
During the school year, they arrive at school well in advance of the thankless hoards called students, they stay late, and then they usually take papers home to grade. Weekends are usually given over to lesson planning, reading reports and grading tests.
These duties are all done on a salary that most educated professionals would consider chickenfeed. While in some locations their very lives are in danger from the very students they are there to educate. Think you have a rough job? Try being a school teacher!
School will be starting soon, send that hardworking, dedicated teacher a bouquet of back-to-school flowers or gift basket.
As a friend and relative of a couple of school teachers I can tell you that they pretty much have a thankless job. For one thing, just because school is out for the summer, does not mean that they also enjoy a vacation. Many of these dedicated educators spend the summer on the lookout for new items to take to school in the fall to stimulate their class's interest.
They also go back to school early to prepare their classroom and to put up fresh decorations (especially in the elementary grades), banners and posters. In some schools, if they want a new wall color, they have to do the painting themselves!
During the school year, they arrive at school well in advance of the thankless hoards called students, they stay late, and then they usually take papers home to grade. Weekends are usually given over to lesson planning, reading reports and grading tests.
These duties are all done on a salary that most educated professionals would consider chickenfeed. While in some locations their very lives are in danger from the very students they are there to educate. Think you have a rough job? Try being a school teacher!
School will be starting soon, send that hardworking, dedicated teacher a bouquet of back-to-school flowers or gift basket.
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