Day 70 - Teachers

I put the following note in the December School of Dad newsletter that went in the mail with the Christmas Card today.
"Ben and I continue our ‘School of Dad’ experiment. I was reading a New Yorker article recently that suggested a kid with a good teacher learns 1.5 years of material in a year and a kid with a bad teacher learns .5 years of material. I would like to think we are doing the former (and I am pretty confident we are not doing the later) but Ben’s learning falls somewhere in the middle. He has a great and interesting brain and I hope we are helping it develop. Some days I struggle just trying to figure out what he is thinking.
One thing is clear – while I have always respected teachers, I hold them in even higher regard now. I hope that every child (including Ben) is fortunate enough to have a great teacher at least once in their schooling. "