TEACHERS ARE BAE


It's teacher's appreciation day!! I think we don't celebrate our teachers enough. Teaching is one profession that requires a lot of stamina both physical and emotional.
For me, it can be a heartbreaking venture.



Let me explain: Assume you are a teacher, you meet your students in September and by June/July the session ends and they move to the next class. There are high chances you have bonded with them. In a class, you probably have a best student,the one you don't punish when punishing the rest of the class for noise making.
Even in the University, as a lecturer you just have a student you like, maybe its because of their academic prowess, their funny comments in class, their bubbly nature, you don't know, you cannot explain it.
All that bonding and rebonding is probably too much for the heart to take.

Here is why I think teachers are bae, year in year out, different students walk in and out of your lecture room, you impact knowledge regardless of their attitudes, you give your best to the best of your knowledge and when their time is done they keep it moving without looking back and only remember you when they need reference letters for postgraduate studies.

So today, my fellow comrades ( i am a volunteer teacher at Edu-Aid that counts right?) in the business of impacting knowledge, I say well done and thank you!  What you do is indescribable.

 Thank you for loving each set of your students like the previous set never existed. Thank you for the stories you told to make the class interesting. We are grateful for your dress sense that had us talking, for bad English that had us giggling, for 'kpankere' that restore brains to factory settings.
This day is about you!  I appreciate you!
PS: This post is not for the female  teacher who used to squeeze growing breasts because of noise making, was it that deep?  Your mates that used to flog do they have two heads?  Tsk Tsk.
Photo credit : nea.org/teacherday

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