An Ode to Teachers

Ordinary People. Ordinary Things. with Melissa Radke

Melissa Radke

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🗓️ 1 May 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Are you a teacher? Do you love a teacher, know a teacher, had a teacher, or have been a teacher before? If so, this podcast is specifically for you. I was a voice teacher for three weeks and found it scary and terrifying and ended up quitting. Teachers are underpaid and under appreciated. Today, I am talking to teachers and those who love teachers. Next week is teacher appreciation week, and I want to talk about the job that every girl at my high school wanted except for me. Today is an ode to teachers.

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Show Notes

[00:21] How being a teacher is one of the jobs that I would like to do the least.
[00:35] I taught voice lessons for three weeks and woke up with diarrhea every single morning.
[01:13] Today, I am taking an opportunity to speak to teachers directly.
[02:21] Being a teacher is a job of purpose. It's no mistake. There is nothing that God hasn't thought out, and you are a teacher because you are supposed to be.
[03:40] How the Bible says that there are seasons and a time for everything.
[04:35] If you read Ecclesiastes, you will see that you have spent your time teaching and preparing to teach, because it is what you are supposed to be doing.
[08:05] Teachers are about teaching lessons so please don't miss this important lesson.
[08:53] The message of Hebrews 12 verses 1-3 as broke down in The Message Bible.
[11:08] In 2009, we had just moved to Lufkin, Texas. Remy had just started kindergarten.
[11:43] This was a tough year for us, and Remy had to hear a lot of yelling during this year.
[12:17] Remy's teacher was a constant in a pretty unconstant world.
[13:16] How God loves children and will do whatever it takes to make sure that they are surrounded by the constant.
[13:24] Children need to be surrounded by the love during the day, especially, if they are not surrounded by the love at night.
[14:07] You might be the favorite teacher of the town's next mayor. You might be the bright spot in that future surgeon’s day.
[14:30] Teachers have a selfless job, because they have to help these children find their purpose.
[14:49] Ecclesiastes 3 if it were written by a teacher…
[17:50] My lightning round that I wrote for my own self. (My feelings on school.)
[19:39] How to bless your teacher next week during teacher appreciation week.
[20:06] No apples, candles, or homemade potholders. Teachers like to look cute, and they are running out of things to wear.
[20:22] The I am so freaking valuable shirts sale out everywhere I go. Show your teacher how valuable you think they are.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi y'all you're listening to ordinary people ordinary things with me your host Melissa Radke the
0:07.2	ordinariest of us all. I am not a teacher with the exception of working at a desk job at a meat packing plant.
0:24.8	Your job is the job I would like to do, the least.
0:29.7	I taught once in my life, I actually taught voice voice lessons I woke up with diarrhea every
0:35.1	single morning and I quit after three weeks. People didn't even get their full
0:39.8	monthly tuition out of me but they didn't care because their children were just as miserable
0:45.4	learning from me as I was teaching them. Teaching scared me. Teaching terrified me. I'm far too selfish to be a teacher. I cannot possibly concern myself with your problems when I have so many of my own.
1:00.0	It really is a selfless job. You all are underpaid, under appreciated, and I am so undeserving.
1:08.0	Which is why I am taking this opportunity to speak to you teachers directly.
1:12.0	That's right.
1:13.0	If you are not a teacher, then please immediately turn off today's podcast.
1:17.0	I'm serious, turn it off.
1:19.0	I'm not serious at all.
1:20.0	Do not!
1:21.0	Actually, here's the criteria to listen. You must be a teacher or love a teacher.
1:26.5	Have been a child who had a teacher, have been a teacher before. You have to know a teacher or been taught by a teacher. But if none of those
1:33.8	apply seriously, off with your heads. Because Teacher Appreciation Week is next week and I
1:39.1	want to talk for just a few moments about the job that every girl I went to high school with wanted,
1:44.9	except me.
1:46.4	I never ever wanted that job.
1:48.9	My mama didn't raise no fool.
1:50.4	I knew I couldn't do it.
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