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Anyone got anything positive to say about teachers?

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TitianRed · 22/09/2006 20:00

Whenever I come on Mumsnet I find a lot of negative posts about teachers. As a teacher myself, I know how demanding the job is. It makes me thoroughly depressed to see the 'Us versus Them' mentality of a lot of Mumsnetters. Please realise that teachers want to work with you to get the best out of your child. We are not the enemy. Anyone got any positive stories to start the ball rolling, please?

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JennyLee · 23/09/2006 14:05

My ds's previous teacher was wonderful, motivated , enthused about the children and her job and seemed to have endless energy. I think they do a very challenging job and think teachers like her are very important people

nikkie · 23/09/2006 18:44

My kids teachers have all been excellent , (TAs too!)Dd1s teacher last year was particularly helpful when she kept being ill and developing allergies, she still chats in the street (lives near us) and always has time to stop and chat to dd2 .

kid · 23/09/2006 18:51

My DDs teacher is fantastic, she is doing such a great job. She is a friend of mine too, I have known her for 4 years and I really couldn't ask for a better person to be teaching my DD.

indignatio · 23/09/2006 18:56

I could have written twigglets post !

ds has just started reception and the teacher is great - his fav word for school at the mo is "fantastic". I am a sahm and so would like to assist in any way I can - but would also hate to be labelled as "one of those parents who just has to talk to teacher" - any advice there ?

ds's teacher is also (in the word of one day) foxy and so quite a number of daads have volunteered for her working party !!

mil was a teacher - I owe my great education to teachers - I couldn't do the job for love nor (crap) money. I only like kids I like - the rest can go boil their heads - don't think I'm cut out for the job

Having said all that - If I thought ds's teacher wasn't doing right by him - I would be one of the first to complain

Have I made any sense, or should I just stop drinking wine before posting on Mumsnet?

acnebride · 23/09/2006 19:21

Am I allowed to do a blast from the past?

I was taught by Jeremy Brown (now an author of children's books) for 2 terms 28 years ago. He was fantastic. I've had lots of great teachers but he was the best - he created an exciting, anything-could-happen atmostphere in a small mouldy portacabin containing 28 8-year-olds, and I remember him telling me off with great clarity because nobody ever had before and by gum did I deserve it.

Teachers deserve the world. I hope you enjoy your job, at least sometimes!

motherinferior · 23/09/2006 19:33

I adored DD1's reception teacher last year and I adore her current Y1 one, not just because he is a highly fetching young man.

sis · 23/09/2006 19:38

Ds had a fanbloodytastic teacher in year one - I miss her so much even though ds is now in year 3. We are fortunate in that his teacher this year seems to be very good too but I have a feeling that no teacher will ever be as wonderful as his year 1 teacher who made schooling so much fun for all the kids in her class.

Glassofwine · 23/09/2006 19:40

Last year I didn't like dd teacher, but she did which was the most important thing. I talked to her about dd's problems with concentration and she made me feel like a pushy mother and said she haddn't noticed anything.

On Fri I went to talk to new teacher about the concentration as she's been partidularly bad recently. New teacher said she was pleased as she was going to talk to me about the same thing - I love her. She is enthusiastic, keen and very approachable the children think she's fab.

Blandmum · 23/09/2006 19:46

Like acnebride I would like to thank two teachers that I had.

Miss Williams, my English teacher, who was so strict most Mntters would burn her, but she was wonderful and made us really think in her lessons.

Miss Poole, who was a fantastic biology teacher who totaly changed my life.

Without these two I would have never have made it to university, met dh or had my two beautiful kids. If I am half the teacher they both were I'll be a happy woman.

fattiemumma · 23/09/2006 19:48

the best teacher i have ever known of was Mrs MAddison.

she taught Science and was a complete nutter! i spent 4 years praying i would be in her science class but i never was. she only ever gave one lesson to my group and i remember every single word of it, even now.

her energy and enthusiasm were intoxicating and i would love for her to be cloned and sent to every school.

SoMuchToBits · 23/09/2006 19:51

My ds is now in year 1. I really liked his teacher in reception last year, but I also really like his new one. He seems to have done really well, and learned a lot since starting school, and is also very happy there.

One of the things which really impressed me was the fact that the teachers seem to get to know the children well very quickly. Last year, only a couple of weeks after starting school, his teacher said somrthing to me which made me realise she had sussed out his personality already. So I have no complaints.

I have also volunteered to help in a clssroom once a week, and am helping with a project with the school library. Having been in the school, and seen a bit more of it, I am even more convinced than I was before, that it is a good school with great teachers and happy children.

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