Talk:Foundations and Assessment of Education/Edition 1/Foundations Table of Contents/Chapter 1/Content Articles/1.3.1

== READER RESPONCE ==

I thought that this article explained well the public view of what teachers are as well as how teachers view themselves as professionals. While I was completing my Observation at Princess Ann High school in Virginia Beach, I saw a note on one of the bulletin boards that said: “teaching is the one profession that makes all other professions possible - anonymous”. This statement is very true, it is a shame that people look down on teaching. Our world has become so capitalist and materialistic that the true professions are suffering because the media sucks in this future generation. Most students that graduate high school only dream of becoming famous, going to Hollywood and getting rich, not looking at the fact that there is more to life than that. It is sad that people look down on teaching as a profession mainly because of the pay. If you asked any parent on what they expect from a child care facility they would say: someone who can take care of my child as well as I would”. I think that if teaching were not a profession and just have random people teaching their children would not fulfill there full potential as a students, they would not become a positive citizen in the future which is what I would think every parent would expect their child would learn in school; so how dare they say that teaching is not a profession. Bpenn005 (talk) 12:02, 4 July 2009 (UTC)