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There are people in
our lives that make an
impact on us.
A lot of those just
happen to be teachers.
Here is a chance to say
thanks.
Schools were closed, then opened, then closed and opened again. Kids were sent home to quarantine
and Zoom classrooms became all the norm. Teachers did as best they could. Parents, caught off guard, put in that
extra effort to support their children’s learning. Often it was an overwhelming experience. But parents and
teachers came to see each other in a new light.
Now with schools open and teachers back in class, it's time to reflect on what we've all been through and how
we've depended on each other. And now, on World Teachers Day, let's throw teachers a well-deserved 'thank you.'
"On behalf of Alberta's teachers, thank you, parents for all you have done over the last 18 months
to help support learning to continue."
– Jason Schilling, ATA President
Read some of the Thank You comments so far.
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Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions.
Thank you to all of you who are still teaching.
Lynn
Thanks you for caring for our children and their welfare.
Covid.
For all the values you put in me. I am the fruit of your dedication. I am proud of you and of me.
Please know that your presence in your classrooms is saving kids and supporting families. Do what you can to teach your students while protecting their mental and physical health. Take care of yourselves, find ways to nurture your own spirits, love and enjoy your family and friends. Let all the other crap go and stay well! Better times will come!
Thank you! Merci!
Thank you, Thank you, Thank you to our teachers and support staff for all you do.
Take care of yourselves. Much love from across the miles.
You help us learn from the past and shape our future.
You may not hear it when you need it, you may not ever hear it from some at all, so:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thank you for fighting that uphill battle again and again, thank you for your unconventional ingenuity and lifetimes’ worth of patience. Thank you for all those late nights marking and planning lessons; thank you for those stressful field trips and missed lunch hours spent helping us work through a lesson problem.
Thank you for chasing us down to make sure we had actually done our homework and understood the lesson when we tried to avoid you.
Thank you for believing us when our cat did indeed eat our homework, and letting us get away with not finishing it when we needed the break.
Thank you for being brave enough to run out into the middle of a large-scale water balloon fight to put a stop to it before we broke those large, expensive windows.
Thank you for agreeing to take us on another field trip when we prematurely turned your hair grey on the last one because we kept wandering off to the different exhibits without telling you.
Thank you for trusting us in the shop again after we started it on fire, and for letting us back into the kitchen when we (somehow) managed to get dough on the ceiling.
Thank you for being your patient, eccentric (even weird), funny, boring, soft-spoken, outspoken, silent staring, strangely normal, unorthodox, bizarre, impatient, overly-patient, understanding (and not understanding), slightly obsessive, too short (or too tall), sleep deprived, incredible selves.
Thank you, Teacher, for teaching.
P.S.
“Plus or minus, DANGER DANGER!” said a high school teacher once upon a time. We ALL remember that one. That single phrase is something I use every day (and not just at work!) and have been able to pass on to others. (It’s very effective.) Mrs. F, thank you for being your amazing eccentric self, even when you heard students calling you weird for it. You’ve helped a LOT of people with a single sentence, let alone a lifetime as an educator.
Thanks so much.
Thank you – current teachers.