Shoe by Gary Brookins and Susie MacNelly for February 14, 2011

I can’t blame him. Teaching 7 and 8 year-olds can drive you nuts.

I was like that when I was a school teacher.

Happy Valentine’s everyone.

Wait till they hit 13.

Agreed Pam! Middle school is the hardest. It can be also the most rewarding, but it takes a ton of patience!

I have taught every grade from K-12 grade (currently 9-12); middle schoolers are the worst. They finally notice the opposite sex and try to act all cool. It takes great patience.

He must have learned kicking and screaming from his students. Perhaps it worked on him.

Kudos to the guy for teaching. We need more male teachers in the primary grades. They bring a different perspective.

A BIG THANK YOU TO ALL TEACHERS

Have a happy Valentine’s Day.

Maybe you’d like to teach a class where the kids are just reaching PUBERTY???

A valentine to all teachers! It does seem the puberty hormone surge in students does create the greatest problem, other than them entering politics.

To impart the knowledge of anything (teaching) is not difficult, no matter what grade. It’s getting them to accept and retain the same.

Very, very old joke, but still good!

I’d take his job, as long as flying into the treetops wasn’t involved. I LOVE second-graders!! They’re just taking control of their own learning, but still want to please the teacher. Too bad the System is backwards now. Teachers aren’t treated as professionals, and administrators are free to twist “evaluations” to keep or oust un-tenured teachers. (What, me bitter?)

. That joke-line is so old,,,,,,,it has long wiskers !!!!!!!!!!!

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The Teacher’s Union is one of, if not, the STRONGEST unions in this country. Once you reach tenure, you can’t get rid of a teacher, no matter how bad of a teacher they may be.

Teachers reaching tenure are graded on a curve. When teachers get paid what they are worth, then administrators can be choosier as more talented people apply to this already outstanding group of people.

@Dry: I do believe teacher tenure laws were passed long before the teachers’ union came into widespread existence. AND you can get rid of tenured teachers, but it requires administrators to evaluate tenured teachers regularly(which certainly is and can be done), to pay attention, and to go through an established procedure. Do some lazy teachers take advantage of lazy and/or inept administrators? Sure. Back when teachers could be fired anytime for no reason, things did not work so well either. Blaming teachers’ unions for our education problems is a convenient political ploy used to distract underinformed voters from more important issues.

wow someone hit a nerve or two! Any time you have to deal with a bureaucracy, it’s hard!! the best part about teaching (any age) is when that light bulb goes off over the student’s head and it’s an “AH HA!” moment!

That makes it ALL worth while.

(I teach voc. college)