TO: PARENTS

Teachers are on your child's side.

Teachers are not against you.

Teachers have a college degree.

Teachers do not have babysitter training.

Teachers actually do know what they are talking about when it comes to your child, we are with them in their truest form.

Teachers are not saying you child is awful when we call home to talk about their behavior.

Teachers don't actually sit at their desks all day because they are busy: teaching, managing, listening to kids, watching kids, scanning the room for texting and bullying, looking for kids that are not getting it, looking for kids that are moving ahead, answering questions, engaging kids, taking a mental note that your student is always asleep in my class so they need to get more sleep at night, pacing around the room so kids can always see me, changing the slide on my awesome PowerPoint, thinking of things to change for the next lesson, praying for the struggling student, hoping the students love history, hoping the students find history applicable, deciding who cannot work together in a group, deciding who can work together in a group, trying to apply landforms and weather to teenage life in 2011, making eye contact with the kid who is talking, confiscating notes that students are passing, and all the while still TEACHING.

Teachers don't actually hate any students.  We don't have the time to hate students.

Teachers do hate parents who go over our heads by taking a concern with the teacher straight to the principal.

Teachers do like to talk to parents.

Teachers do call home for good kids and naughty kids.

Teachers know your child has more potential.

Teachers know when parents did their child's homework.

Teachers know when parents didn't even know their child had homework.

Teachers can hear 17 different conversations at the same time.

Teachers can tell you more about your child than you would ever imagine. 

Teachers can break up fights before they even start.

Teachers have your child's best interest at heart.

Teachers actually teach from the state core, what the government requires them to do.

Teachers do not teach their personal religion or political beliefs in the classroom.  Really, they don't.

Teachers just want to stand in a room of kids who really want to learn something new.