In our lives, we all had a wonderful teacher or two who made a lasting impact. In every society, we all glorify the role of teachers and their paramount impacts. We send our kids to them each day, hoping they would teach them to be a president, a famous doctor, or a skillful engineer. We entrust our children and their future to these dedicated teachers.  Yet, we pay them so little and they have to fight to get a raise to cover their monthly bills.

Here to all the teachers.  WE STAND BY YOU!

And if you wonder what it is like to be a teacher. I would like to share with you a small excerpt from Al Parker.

“Teachers are special people. They’re different and maybe even a little strange.  They’ll take a trip just to visit a library.”

“Have you even seen a teacher’s car? It’s a combination bus, U-Haul trailer and filing cabinet on wheels.  To a teacher the trunk isn’t there to hold spare tires.  It’s there to hold science projects, book reports, and models of the White House made out of cubes of sugar.”

“They’re strong.  One little, skinny kindergarten teacher can carry more than a 20 years-old combat Marine can and she can do it while singing “Eency Weency Spider.”

“Teachers love books and they love to buy them.  There are bookstore owners all over America who are able to take European vacations just because of them.”

“A teacher can correct a stack of papers, yell at a kid, answer the phone, argue with the custodian, and eat her lunch at the same time.”

“She can do this because her stomach turned to concrete years ago from eating all that cafeteria food.”

“Anything can happen.  Don’t be surprised if someday you get a call from the Police Department telling you that your mate has been picked up going through the neighborhood trash.”

“Teachers have been known do this, even respectable, gray haired ones with master’s degrees.  They do this because they need those cans, labels, and newspapers so that they can get money to buy things for their classrooms.”

“Do you like snakes? Do you like feeding a thousand guppies that started out as just two? Do you enjoy finding silk worms in your refrigerator?  Do you like having bean and avocado seeds sprouting all over the place and do you like strange things made out of coat hangers and egg cartons?  If you’re married to a teacher, you better get used to it!”

“It’s hard for teachers to say no.  They give up a lot.  They give up their time, their energy and sometimes even their sanity. Life can be hard for them because they care.”

“So, if you meet one, be kind.  They can’t help it.  They’re just trying to make the world right.  They just want everyone to be better.  They believe that each of ushas a responsibility to discover our talents and perfect them.”

“Teachers act like teachers because that’s the way they are. It’s kind of a disease, but such a wonderful disease.  It’s too bad more people don’t catch it.”