Thank you teachers!: The astronomical demands on all teachers - The 11th Hour - MSNBC

[Rhiannon12866]

Now more than ever we send our support and gratitude to educators everywhere. Happy National Teacher Appreciation Day. - Aired on 05/02/2023.

[GPV]

1. Thank you for this!

[Duncanpup]

2. I agree

[Rhiannon12866]

3. I remember all my special teachers, too...

[GPV]

4. I strive to be that educator. Hubby left teaching 20 years ago and still hears from former kids. He

made an impact.

[Rhiannon12866]

5. Kudos to you!

My grandmother was as teacher as well, got her first job in a one room schoolhouse and some of her students were older than she was. And, so many decades later, I can remember going with her when she met up with two of them. They still remembered. Thank you for making a difference.

[GPV]

6. I have a g grandmother who went to the Normal school, then taught in the same little red schoolhouse

I got ready for my wedding in. I can't imagine having kids older than me. That would have been hard! Did you ever read the "Little House” or ”Anne of Green Gables” books? They both dealt with teaching during part of those series.

[Rhiannon12866]

7. Yes, I read all the Little House books when I was a kid.

Then I saw the CBC production of "Anne of Green Gables" on TV, so I read the books after that.

And my grandmother went to Normal School, too. She said that back then, for girls, it was pretty much a choice of being a teacher or a nurse, so it wasn't a hard choice. She said if she was going to school now, she'd be an environmentalist!

She also survived the 1918 flu. She said that her teacher brought her lessons to her at home and she did them in front of the fireplace.

And when we visited where she grew up, a fairly rural area of New York State, Revolutionary War battles were fought near here, she told me a story about her students. There are a lot of farms in the area and poorer families would hire out their sons to work on these farms. And to graduate you had to take an exam, get a Regents diploma, and she knew it was important to her students' future. There were these two brothers who worked on farms and it was harvest season, but they needed time off to take the exam. So she spoke to the two farmers and one cared enough about his worker and let him have the day off, but the other refused. All these years later, she got choked up about it, I don't remember the boys' names, but she did.

[GPV]

8. Wow! The other person in my family that really interests me is my g aunt. Born in 1900, she became

a visiting nurse. I read all my Mom's "Cherry Ames" books in part because of that.

[Rhiannon12866]

9. My grandmother was born in 1900, too! September 13, she said 13 was her lucky number

I was the eldest grandchild so I spent a lot of time with my grandmother, she was my Dad's mother. And her mother died when she was 13, so she spent a lt of time with her paternal grandmother, too. The one room schoolhouse where she taught was across the road from her grandmother's house. So if her grandmother was ill or needed help, she'd put a white cloth in the window to let my grandmother know she needed to come right home.

[GPV]

10. Wow! I love these cool old stories.

[Rhiannon12866]

12. She lived to September 4, 1998, almost her 98th birthday. I still miss her so much.

Her funeral was on September 13 and my uncle made everyone sing Happy Birthday in the church. That was a tearjerker.

[Layzeebeaver]

11. Pencils not Guns

that's all I have to say...

[OrlandoDem2]

13. Nice message. Means well. It's time for society to pony up and start paying.

Otherwise I can’t encourage anyone to teach.

[Rhiannon12866]

14. Back when I was in college, becoming a teacher was very popular

However, these days, between school shootings, Covid and angry parents who want to ban books and supervise everything that's taught, they couldn't pay teachers enough. And it's really too bad, good teachers can make a real difference.

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15. Maybe if we pay our teachers like we pay our babysitters, ...

we wouldn't need teachers unions.

$20/hr. x 8 hrs. = $160/stident
$160 x 30 students = $4,800/day
$4,800 x 5 days = $24,000/week
$24,000 x 39 weeks = $936,000/year

If we paid $10/hr/student they'd make $468,000/year

[BeckyDem]

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