To say thank you to all the teachers out there

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I have watched in horror as the number of threads about teachers has increased over recent weeks and the overwhelming majority of them have been horrifyingly negative. Yes you can be worried about your child’s education, yes you may have concerns about the impact of them currently not being in school and being taught but can we please realise that the constant horribleness about teachers is totally unnecessary?

Teachers have always had, and continue to have, my upmost respect - I do what others consider is a challenging job but bloody hell, I could never ever teach. I see what friends and family who teach go through and the pressure they are put under constantly with diminishing resources.

This is an extraordinary time. This is not teachers having a jolly. It is a bloody pandemic.

So am AIBU to say that we should remember that teachers are fellow human beings and seeing a constant stream of negativity about them and their profession may have an impact on them? And so often it is from posters who will pull out the “be more kind” line when it suits their agenda.

I am definitely not being unreasonable to say thank you to the teachers out there. How on Earth you put up with all of this I will never know.

Very least I could do. I have a very close family member is a teacher and I definitely think we need to all stick together and support each other through tough times

And thank you to those people for saying lovely things about what I do. I didn’t mention it for that but purely because I know what it is like to be called out as public enemy number one by large numbers of people. And for the poster who said they couldn’t contemplate wanting to resign based on what people say on social media...at work I am as tough as they come, but some of the comments levelled against me and my colleagues in the past nearly had me walking away from the career I have dedicated so much to over the past 10 years so I can completely understand how the teacher bashing makes teachers feel

Thank you! My son's teachers are doing an awesome job. I trust them that they will find a way to open as safely as possible.

Teachers and our head teacher at our primary school has been absolutely fantastic. They gone far and beyond, I couldn't expect and thank them more.

cheers OP

Our school have been absolutely amazing. I will never forget when they closed for lockdown and both boys came out happy as Larry. I thought "The school have done that. Their teachers have done that."

Thank you to every teacher out there.

Both my (primary aged) boys teachers have been absolutely amazing these last few weeks. They are available via email or our teaching apps every weekday, they are looking at and marking work we upload on a daily basis. Both of them are reading a bedtime story to the all kids as well and uploading it via the app everyday - one chapter a day. My boys love that.
They've gone above and beyond to support both children and parents and I can't thank them enough. These have been stressful times for all of us but they've managed to maintain a lot of normality for the kids by being so 'accessible' everyday.
Thank you to all the teachers here