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[quote=Anonymous]The only thing typified by this thread is the depths to which many teachers have sunken. In the past teachers have been praised for their many years of hard work, selfless devotion, and low compensation related to other professions. We have all been fortunate enough to have know a few educators to whom these descriptions apply. Those individuals dutifully did their jobs over periods of many years without many complaints. They took the good with the bad. They taught, they coached, sponsored, counseled, and recommended their students with few complaints. During the summers they painted houses, did construction, and tutored to subsidize their meager incomes.

So these special people we hold in high esteem. Some of them have passed on and some of them continue to grace our classrooms today. They are amazing and altruistic human beings who have in some way improved the lives of every student they have taught. These teachers are the Hall of Famers of their profession.

Hall of Fame teachers give far more than they ever receive in return and they would never ridicule their students and their parents in the teachers lounge or in a public forum such as DCUM. Professional Teachers live by a code of professional ethics which prohibits them from ridiculing their students.

Hall of Fame Teachers have earned our enduring respect over many years of consistent kindness, excellence, and grace. Hall of Fame teachers don't ridicule their students in the teachers lounge. No far from it they teach them in the classroom and they don't make sarcastic fodder of them or their families on DCUM.

The choice is yours to make. Will you achieve greatness in the classroom or will you seek popularity in the Teacher's Lounge?  The choice is yours to make. Think long and hard before you decide because you'll only be popular among the cool teachers lounge crowd as long as you continue coming up with bigger, better, juicier, and more salacious stories. BTW, most of your lounge-lizard BFFs won't even be teaching in another two years, so hitching your wagon to that dead horse crowd is a losing proposition right from the beginning.

Be one of the greats - make great sacrifices to your students and leave it all in the classroom, not in the teachers lounge. [/quote]

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