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[quote=Anonymous]I am  a teacher but I am also a mom.  I can look at the situation from both sides.  From my teacher perspective I know there are many (most) incredible, very intelligent, and dedicated teachers in classrooms.  The come early, stay late, and care deeply for students.  They not only love teaching and enjoy students they also love the content they teach.  They are excited to try new strategies.  There are a smaller number of teachers just holding on for retirement, do not really understand the content (in ES), or have lost the love of being in a room filled with children.

As a parent who has a child with the latter type of teacher for the past two years I am angry and sad.  If it were not for my experiences over 10 years in schools I might begin to look down on teachers too. It would be easy to think that if 2 out of 4 teachers that my child has had have been bad then half of all teachers are bad. This would be my only perspective.

I encourage all parents to give each teacher a chance.  There are many of us who chose teaching that had every opportunity to make it in another career.  Instead, we spend each day doing what we love and hopefully making a difference in children's lives.  
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