How is teaching portrayed to the public?

 When thinking back to your old teachers you usually think of an amazing teacher that meant the world to you or one that you just could not stand to be around. Either way no one really talks about the "normal" teacher that is just doing their job. Not wrong by any mean but not necessarily in the best way. When you think about  teaching the public tends to extend off their own experiences and or some kind of movie that really spoke to them. Some people think that teaching is an admirable job that is very rewarding for the teachers and their students under them. While others think that it is a stupid job that gets paid nothing to babysit teens and children. Teaching can be portrayed differently based on what culture you live in too. In the YouTube video we watched it explained how teachers in other cultures are much more respected then ones in America. They think of teachers as wise people that offer wisdom and can teach people valuable things. While many people in America do not take teachers seriously and only think about how little teachers get paid. Plus I do not know if this is a American thing but parents are extremely disrespectful to teachers here. Many parents decide to listen to their own kids rather then the teachers. They tend to argue that everything is the teachers fault even if it is their own doing. So teaching can be portrayed through many different lights in my opinion. I tend to see teaching through rose colored glass mainly because I want to be a teacher!