teachers being ignored

hi! though i'm not practicing my teaching profession for now, i'm still a teacher by heart. i believe that a teacher will always be a teacher as long as s/he believes s/he is. it doesn't really matter if your students care to greet you outside the classroom. what matters is how you care for your students, how you express that loving concern and how you continue to live a teacher that is within you.

Here's what I think: Since teachers do not really earn a lot of money, people think of it as a regular job, which is wrong!

Hi rainzero! I do believe that the teaching profession is one of the most respectable and honorable profession in the world. In their hands, they mold the young minds of the great people in our history and present times. But sadly, there are those that do not respect nor recognized the teachers who have contributed so much in their success. Once when we held a get together party of our batch in high school, we invited all our former teachers..we picked them up in their own homes just to be sure that they will attend. And during the party, we presented them plaques of appreciation and recognition in their teaching and patience. All of our high school teachers cried and thanked us for the honor and respect we bestowed on them and said that they never expected that we will come back and remember them after so many years. It is really touching! Take care and have a nice day! lovelots..faith210

not sure just what you mean here but I do think a teacher if a good teacher has an impact on a persons life beyond the classroom. My grandmother, father and aunt were all teachers and I know that they made a huge impact on many of their students lives. Both my aunt and my dad got awards for their teaching and it was mainly due to the impact that they had on students lives. I can vouch that their teaching did not end in the classroom at all. Many a night students were at our home asking for help on work and my dad would always drop everything to help them. Both him and my aunt were also very involved in extra curricular activities such as sports, music, drama etc. for them, it was more than a full time job. I'm not sure just what recognition you are looking for. I mean my dad was looked at as far more than a teacher. He was a coach, he was a friend to many, he was a dad and into politics and religion. There was so much more to him than just being a teacher. That was just his profession and he was very good at it but he was far more than that.