Teachers underappreciated and underpaid

Teacher what have they done for you lately? Well I’ll tell you what they have done for me. My 7-year-old can read to me at night, she can also count to 100. She is also learning how to problem solve on her own. All because her teachers that take the time and enjoy teaching to help her grow her mind. I find this article on theodysseyonline.com by Justice Nicole Bealle called Teachers: Underappreciated And Underpaid. Her opening statement is "Teachers have a unique job. They are the educators of our future generations." My view point just based on this opening statement says everything I am trying to say. Educators are so important to us. Each and every one of us have had an experience with a teacher. Learning is everything for our future, so why are they so under-appreciated? As I dig deeper into this topic I realize there may be know true answer. I hope someday we can bring out more awareness to this world about how important teachers are to our world. 

This last school year my daughter was in all day kindergarten. Her kindergarten teacher was replaced 4 times this year. Yep you heard that right, she had 4 different teachers in one school year. Teachers feel so underappreciated and underpaid that it comes down to this. When is enough going to be enough? When Are we going to start valuing or teachers? They our are future.  In an article on nytimes.com by Jeneen Interlandi she quotes  “Teaching preschoolers is every bit as complicated and important as teaching any of the K-12 grades, if not more so,” says Marcy Whitebook, a director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley. “But we still treat preschool teachers like babysitters. We want them to ameliorate poverty even as they live in it themselves.” . I can agree with this I think that all teachers deserve the pay and respect the same. I believe that each grade level has its own level of skills but not one is more or less better or harder the the next. I feel like they can be compared the same. Over all I feel like teachers teaching at any grade level are all underappreciated and underpaid.