I overheard an exchange the other day between a student and a teacher that completely befuddled me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo we have to take notes today?\u201d the student asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should always take notes,\u201d the teacher responded.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I mean is there going to be a lot of stuff today?\u201d the student asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell, I\u2019m going to be lecturing,\u201d the teacher said.\u00a0 The student promptly sighed their displeasure and pulled out a notebook and pen.<\/p>\n
Maybe it\u2019s just me, but isn\u2019t that rude?\u00a0 To me, teachers are people to be respected both with words and with actions.\u00a0 That includes paying attention in class. \u00a0I\u2019m sorry if I\u2019m stepping on anybody\u2019s toes, but I take my education seriously, and I tend to think highly of the people providing that opportunity for me.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard for me to understand why somebody else wouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Now, I\u2019m not the perfect student.\u00a0 I\u2019ll admit it.\u00a0 There are required classes I\u2019ve taken that I don\u2019t think are important.\u00a0 Sometimes my mind wanders because something more important than school steals my attention.\u00a0 Heck, I once had a professor with a monotonous drawl to rival Ben Stein\u2019s.\u00a0 That doesn\u2019t mean I look for a reason to mentally skip out on my class.<\/p>\n
Teachers often have a thankless job.\u00a0 Sure there are rewards beyond a student\u2019s thankfulness, but that doesn\u2019t mean a kind word isn\u2019t appreciated.\u00a0 Don\u2019t believe me?\u00a0 Think of the teacher you admire most.\u00a0 When was the last time you expressed your gratitude?<\/p>\n
Teachers work outside office hours.\u00a0 Most I know arrive at school before students get there, and they leave the school long after students are on their way home.\u00a0 I\u2019ve heard that teachers take papers home to grade them because they don\u2019t always have time to do it at school.\u00a0 Can you imagine taking your work home with you every night or even once a week?<\/p>\n
Teachers are busy.\u00a0 Between teaching classes, office hours, grading homework and mandatory staff meetings, I\u2019m not sure how they get it all done, especially if they work for two schools.\u00a0 I can\u2019t count how many times just this week that I\u2019ve heard my teachers say \u201cI\u2019ll get that to you as soon as I can, I\u2019m just a little behind right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Teachers don\u2019t make nearly enough.\u00a0 The average starting salary of any teacher in Ohio is approximately $33,000, according to teacherportal.com.\u00a0 To put that in perspective, the prevailing wage for a Montgomery County employee is about $41,000, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.<\/p>\n
I know I\u2019m not a teacher and I couldn\u2019t begin to cover everything that goes into instruction or education, but I do know this: If someone has chosen to spend their career passing on valuable information so that you can get a good job down the road, the least we can do in return is say thank you and take notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I overheard an exchange the other day between a student and a teacher that completely befuddled me. \u201cDo we have to take notes today?\u201d the student asked. \u201cYou should always take notes,\u201d the teacher responded. \u201cNo, I mean is there going to be a lot of stuff today?\u201d the student asked. \u201cWell, I\u2019m going to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1976,763,762],"class_list":["post-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tartan-news","tag-meagan-ewton","tag-teacher-appreciation","tag-thank-you"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5s3vR-OY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}