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Show A teacher's wish list Dear Editor: A teacher's wish list for 1985: 1. A word of appreciation for the long hours spent during, before and after school that teachers spend working to help each student reach his highest potential. 2. A friendly caring administration ad-ministration who realize their job is to encourage and make easier by word and action the teachers enormous task of teaching each child. 3. A cooperative group of parents who work with the teachers and help their child see the true value of education and realize they have ! only one child, but a teacher has many students. 4. A feeling of success when you have done your very best and know it, though it was under many ad- verse conditions. 5. A feeling of reward for helping many children other than your own, but continuing on with your many duties as homemaker, wife, mother, and community servant as well. 6. A superintendent who understands un-derstands the golden rule and cares about your personal feelings and knows you have many other responsibilities other than just teaching, and caringly assists you in reaching all those responsibilities. respon-sibilities. 7. Appreciation for teachers in Utah whose students test above the national average in spite of overcrowded over-crowded classes and less money used per child than any state other than Mississippi, and less money per child than any other district in Utah. 8. Appreciation to wonderful kindergarten teachers whose class load is over 60 children each day, plus all other duties. This load is twice that of other classroom teachers. Nobody seems to know or care, but in surrounding states this job would be given to two teachers' because someone there realizes that the younger the student the more is required of its teacher. 9. Support from parents who help their children to work independently, in-dependently, focus on learning activities, speak clearly and respect property of others, and respect teachers. 10. Appreciation for teachers who live moral and ethical standards unsurpassed in the nation, which carries over into their teaching and the lives of their students. -Winona M. Kirk Lindon |