teach your children well...

...here is the first of what I am sure will be many posts about being a teacher. I am hoping to stay away from discussing my job in detail because it's not appropriate and in all honesty would any of you want to read anything about your children via the internet? didn't think so. with that being said, I have a request; please for the love of everything that is beautiful in this world, teach your children that teachers are people too. we are daughters/sons, parents, grandchildren, grandparents, sisters/brothers, wives/husbands. we have feelings and lives. many of us, who are competent, work extremely hard before, during and after school hours. hell, even while we sleep we are working. we spend money we don't have on your kids, our day doesn't begin when your children come to school and it doesn't end when they leave. SO PLEASE, TEACH THEM, we are not babysitters, we are not their friends, we are not their toilets, or their doormats. (this also includes paraprofessionals). thank you...