For almost 60 years, the United States has celebrated National Teacher Day each year. This year that day is May 6th, which has just come and gone without my notice as I know live in England! I have not yet been able to determine if they celebrate a Teacher Appreciation Day of sorts over here. Of course, they should...
My wife used to work as a teacher over in the United States. She taught 5 year olds and did the sorts of work in one week that I did in a month. Teachers have a tough job.
Whatever the case, I wanted to put a quick post together to say thanks to the teachers that taught me over the years and that teach my kids nowadays. Here are a couple links to some teacher related stories...
- Teacher Appreciation Week
- Google on Celebrating National Teacher Day
- Wikipedia on Teachers' Day
- Wikipedia on World Teachers' Day
