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Monday, May 7, 2012

National Teacher Day | Lily's Blackboard

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In Case You Were Wondering What Educators Do On National Teacher Day…

It’s National Teacher Day. So, on this day, teachers will be teaching good nutrition.
And first aid.
And how to say, “Excuse me.”
We’ll diversify our curriculum and instruction to meet the personal and individual needs of all our students including the blind, the hearing impaired, the emotionally disturbed, the physically challenged, the cognitively disabled, the gifted and talented and the kids who don’t fit neatly into any of those categories but just need us to give them a hug and a little extra encouragement; we’ll make sure they’ve had their immunizations, make sure they understand disease control and how to cough into their sleeves and how to resist drugs, alcohol and tobacco; we’ll give career counseling, pregnancy counseling, mental health counseling and counseling to juvenile offenders; we’ll talk with parents and grandparents and foster parents about what they can do at home to help their happy children and their troubled children and we’ll make take-home packets for sick children; we’ll provide computer instruction, sex