Teachers

I wish I had the patience to be a teacher. I once dabbled in it hoping i would find a passion/talent for it...those summers off really appealled to me! I was a youth worker for a youth agency and I was the worker who went in to the classroom with the kids from our agency. I worked side by side with the teacher.
Although I enjoyed the experience, I realized very quickly that it would drive me completely mad to try to teach someone elses children day in and day out.
It also gave me a very sincere appreciation for the wonderful work that good teachers do.
(ok, all you teachers out there, go ahead and diss me for ending that sentence with a preposition!!!yet another reason i shouldn't be a teacher!)
ok, so its clear that, like Oprah, I totally respect teachers..........but....you knew there was a but coming....
teachers are human.
Despite the fact that any human service worker is trained to be unbiased and open to all personalities, there have to be times when some teacher meets a kid that they just don't like.
It's human nature.
I've heard parents say 'the teacher just does not like my kid.'
It's easy to pass off such a remark as a rationalization for the trouble their child gets into.
But ya know, I've got to admit that I've met people in my lifetime that just rub me the wrong way. I don't hate them...they just bug me. And despite best efforts, it must come across in the way I communicate with them.
So its safe to assume that sometimes a teacher will have a kid in their class that just rubs them the wrong way....for whatever reason. The reason doesn't even really matter.
What does a person do when they just know that their kid's teacher just doesn't like them?
Luckily, in my own experience, that only happened once and it was a long time ago.
The good thing about most teachers is that most can remember what it was like to be a kid. Kids can be annoying sometimes.
As a parent that can be really difficult to know that your child is spending the day being educated by someone who doesn't like them.
As much as such a situation would be tough for the teacher, its equally, if not more difficult for the child and the parent.
The relationship has to be monitored carefully......at what point does a parent step in and say that this is negatively affecting their child's learning experience.
Or do you step in at all and just chalk it up to human nature and life?