TEACHERS.........an appreciation thread!!

TEACHERS ROCK. I spent a year as a social worker in an impoverished middle school, and what teachers do can make or break kids in that city. Unfair pay, long hours, No Child Left Behind and its spawn, lack of funding for basic needs, and on and on. It takes an immeasurable amount of love and commitment to teach.
I can't begin to tell you what teachers have done for me personally. One of them literally saved my life, and we're great friends 15 years later.

All you teachers out there...thank you.