Thaindian News

May 4 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Teachers have a very important role in forming our nation’s children. From a young age, our country’s teachers often spend more time with our children than we as parents do, up to eight hours a day. Their job is vital to our nation’s future, and their responsibility to teach these kids correctly is detrimental to the welfare of our children, their children, and our futures.

Teacher Appreciation Week is celebrated in America as a time to reflect on the good memories with our teachers, as well as to appreciate their hard work. Teachers are among the most underpaid citizens, while being among the most important role models in our lives. Often, they are the building blocks of a student’s life. Just as a parent, teachers are often called upon to play the part of a nurse, counselor, referee, guide, and disciplinarian. The rewards that a good teacher gets is no where close to the value of the rewards they give. In the fourth grade I had a teacher, Mrs Jones, who had also taught my mother, and uncles, pushed me to write. I had written at home before, privately, to express things I felt, but never had considered writing for others to read. Her encouragement is still in my mind today. Long after she has passed away from this earth, her influence still lives on, and her hard work does not go unrewarded. It is the teachers like this who “Teacher’s Appreciation Day, and Week”, was created to honor.

Teacher Appreciation Week for 2010 started yesterday, May 03, and will go until May 7th. Today, May 04, 2010 is Teacher Appreciation Day. More information on this year’s Teacher Appreciation can be found here. Sometime around 1944, a teacher from Wisconsin named Ryan Krug began to correspond with political and educational leaders about the need for a day set aside to honor teachers. In 1955, Eleanor Roosevelt convinced the 81st Congress to proclaim a National Teacher Day. In 1985, the PTA established Teacher Appreciation Week and named it to be the first full week in May, with the Tuesday of that week named as Teacher Appreciation Day.

So don’t forget to join me today, and this week to thank our teachers. I will end with a quote that love,” If you can read this, thank a teacher”. Thanks to all of my teachers, including many who stand out, Mrs Jones, Mrs Newsome, Mrs Eisel, Mr Pitts, and so many others. May God bless you all, and lead the ones who still continue to teach.