Happy Back to School. As we blast through summer, I can’t fault our teachers for reminiscing about how many days they have until their long weekend. Right now teachers are heading in to set up their classrooms for back to school. They’re going through their checklist:
- Hand sanitizer – check.
- All electronics working – nope.
- Vomit proof carpet down – check.
- Small barricade of furniture to cordon off too many kids – check.
- State approved classroom library books reviewed to ensure all banned books taken out – check.
- Breakaway lanyard for grabby kids – check.
- Endless amounts of coffee – check.
Now we’re ready.
We love our teachers. The best ones give our kids an edge on the future. They take the sterility out of learning. When our young students are communicating in platitudes, emojis, and cliches it is our teachers that ask, “What do you mean by that?” And just like that they help our students move away from predictable slang. If they do it right, they teach our kids how to parse the differences between what they mean versus what they say.
They deserve our respect, and they deserve higher salaries. Let’s lift them up. Happy Back to school to the ones that build our future.