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"What teachers are willing to sacrifice for their students"

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    The cartoonist Chan Lowe created the image on this post.   He also wrote the following, on his blog: "Never has the dedication of the people who practice the teaching profession been spotlighted in the way it has
over the past few days. We were shown, in dramatic terms, to what lengths
teachers are willing to go to fulfill the crucial mandate they have been given:
the education and welfare of the most precious members of our society. Yet they are so often treated with disdain.
  Teaching is a calling. Not everyone has the will or the stamina to do it well. It takes love, pride, and an almost sacred commitment that can't be explained in words. In America, teachers have traditionally been underpaid, because in America's early communities, "schoolmarms" were always spinsters who were not expected to support families.
     In other countries, the teaching profession is considered so
noble that it is well paid in comparison to many other professions, as it should  be. In this country, politicians—acting as proxies for taxpayers—haggle with, lowball, denigrate and harass teachers as if their demands for job security and  decent pay are unreasonable and selfish.
      A teacher invests in the  future, student by student, and his or her legacy consists of the product of  those students' fertile minds. Occasionally, teachers are even called upon to  throw themselves into harm's way to protect the lives of their charges as if  they were their own children—and last week six of them demonstrated most profoundly that they do not shrink from the task. About this, no one can  argue.
     So, who deserves to be paid more, and what does the reality tell us about our priorities?"

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