Because teachers are often therapists, friends, mentors, coaches, sometimes providers of food and school supplies or holders of secrets. And in that way, they are some of the most important people in children’s lives.
Susan Straight, “A Noble Profession” (Los Angeles Times Opinion, April 3, 2011)
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