It's also the least appreciated.

Just ask my daughter. She is a teacher in South Florida, and she loves her job.

Lawyers EARN their bad reputation.

I've never blamed teachers for the grades I earned. However, I can understand why many people would do that and in doing so, project their own scholastic inadequacies onto that of their teachers-- it's convenient, it's easy, and it deflects responsibility.

K&R!

PEACE!

I have teachers in my family and one of my maternal grand aunts was responsible for establishing a rural school network in frontier Montana. I respect the hard work done by teachers and their value to our society. However, not all teachers are equal. We have witnessed recently in this region more than a handful of abuse allegations, sexual and physical, on the part of teachers as well as gross misconduct on the part of a school principal. Painting teachers with a broad brush either way is simply fallacious. Not all are bad, but certainly the profession is not peopled 100% by saints either. Likewise, criticism or observations do not necessarily equal hate.

Let's walk this back a bit and find a little more rational ground for discussion of a direction for our educational system which is beneficial for our children.

I'm sorry for your loss and hope you find comfort in the undoubtedly good memories you carry of your mentors.

the only reason i would go to a teacher's funeral would be to pee on the grave

sorry, but this blanket worship of teachers is sickening, they are good and bad, and the trouble is that even if the bad are in the minority, what will mark me for life is that the "good" stand back and allow the bad to get away with it

when teachers themselves are standing strong against the abusers in their midst, i'll stand up for them, but i don't see it

the "good" teachers did not stand up for me, and they knew the harm done, at the end of the day, all they cared about was protecting their own income and their own status

i can't stand up for a group of people that close ranks and protect predators just to make themselves look good

of course i'm bitter, i was terribly harmed and i doubt i'm the only one

there are two sides to every coin, and people aren't angry about "grades," which are forgotten almost before you're out the door, but they're angry about being asked to ass-kiss the little tin god of authority, and too many teachers abused their authority

i don't know why so many teachers liked and helped you, but i'm going to take a wild guess that you were not a funny looking kid or a kid who had the wrong clothes or any of a number of reasons that would make a teacher think they could get away with mistreating you

i think lots of pretty upper middle class kids love their teachers and how nice for them but their experience is not more valid than my experience

I've had a few teachers like the kind you described. One of them did everything he could to keep me from graduating and didn't hide his contempt from me at all.

On the whole, I appreciate the teachers who were dedicated to their classrooms and to their students. I had no time for those who didn't want to be there.

The teacher I cited was amazing. He taught me to understand history, not just memorize it. I wouldn't be here on DU if it weren't for him.