"My husband is a teacher and he's always working and upgrading his classes. He takes on the establishment when he has to and students and their parents when he needs to. He's always available and his students are lucky to get him."
Mine is a former teacher - presently an overworked, overstressed administrator whose job is to tick off everyone all the time! :)
It's a thankless job and his hands are often tied.
He's been in the classroom - on the athletic fields - and now he does his best to keep unruly kids AND unruly teachers in line.
He earns every penny they give him.
Ah, so you're a spouse that sees how hard your teacher works and has ignoramouses always talking about how unintelligent and lazy teachers are, too? It's enough to make you want to scream, isn't it? We see bad teachers too, so it isn't that we are blind to the bad-teacher component of the education problem. But they do not represent the majority. And they just make my husband's job all the harder. Teachers deserve a lot of respect. Given what I read far too often on FR, it's no wonder that the little darlings in the classroom don't respect their teachers, making it all the harder for them to do their job.