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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid’s teachers make more money than I do and get better benefits. I very much appreciate them, am always polite, do not try to take their time or make their lives harder. But this idea that I somehow inadequately appreciate teachers is weird to me. Or the idea that I owe them lots of gift cards or gifts. I always make a point of sending thank you cards and, if it is in budget, a target gift card. Beyond that I really don’t think anything else should be expected of me as a parent.

Just how appreciative do I need to be? I am honestly not that appreciated in my job.[/quote]+10[/quote]

Teacher here, who posted above about AP workloads. I don’t need appreciation. I don’t expect it at holidays or at the end of the year. I do appreciate thank you letters when I write college recommendations, but I know not to expect them since they come about 2-5% of the time.

I’d be happy if I can just get some respect. That might look like not calling my job “easy” and telling me to appreciate my summers off. Those 4-5 weeks aren’t much of a trade-off for the grueling 60-70 hour weeks throughout the year. [/quote]

PP here. I've never called a teachers job easy or told anyone to "appreciate" their time off, because I'm not a jerk.

I think one issue is that teachers interact with many kids and parents and I'm sure the ones who are disrespectful and dismissive feel representative but they aren't. I can only think of one, maybe two, other parents who I've ever encountered who actually disrespect teaching as a profession. Most people I know fall all over themselves to respect and praise our teachers. I think when you encounter people like that, you need to write them off because most people don't feel that way. It's just that the people who do are extremely loud and annoying.

If it makes you feel any better, the same people who call teachers' jobs easy usually also think that most female-dominated professions are easy, and also that SAHMs are lazy. Since I know for a fact that teachers deal with moms much more often than dads, this means that the vast majority of the parents you encounter are ALSO disrespected in their profession, by the same people who feel that way about you. We have a lot more in common than you think. Imagine if we just supported each other.[/quote]

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