40 things your child’s teacher wants you to know

The students we remember are happy, respectful and good-hearted, not necessarily the ones with the highest grades.

Keep your hands where I can see them.

Follow this advice on how to have a happy teenager. 

I saw him recently, and he told me he just graduated from college. That’s what makes it all worthwhile.

I have parents who are CEOs of their own companies come in and tell me how to run my classroom. I would never think to go to their office and tell them how to do their jobs.

And we don’t leave the minute they get back on the bus. Many of us put in extra hours before and after school.

Parents and teachers really are on the same side.

The truth is simple: Your kid will lie to get out of trouble.

That’s key to success in the classroom at any age.

Here are 10 books we bet you never knew were banned. 

We can tell the difference between a parent helping their child with homework and doing it for them (especially when they’re clueless in class the next day).

There’s not a teacher alive who will say she went into this for the money.