Brian Laird on WNYC.

So for our last 15 minutes or so today, this week is Teacher Appreciation Week.

Did you know that?

So for the end of the show today, we're inviting you now to call in to thank a teacher from your past for something specific or for current parents to shout out a teacher now in your own kid's life. 212-433 WNYC, 212, 433-9692. Current parents, we definitely want to hear from you. You know the teachers

who are out there currently doing the work will love it if somebody tells them, or if you tell

them yourself. I was on the Brian Laird Show praising you for Teacher Appreciation Week. How would

you express your appreciation for

any one teacher, for any one thing in any one of your children's lives? 212-433 WNYC,

212-433-9692, or you can go back and you can thank a teacher from any time in your past for something

specific because teacher appreciation never really goes away or shouldn't.

212-433 WNYC, 212, 433, 9692. I will thank my second grade teacher, Mrs. Barracks, for not skipping me from

second to fourth grade, as I think was under consideration there for a little while, because I had

trouble enough with third grade as it was. So, Mrs. Barracks, if you're out there, thank you for

not skipping me in elementary school,

PS209 in Queens, from second to fourth grade, when you had that option. And who else? For those of

you who've been out of school for a few years and might not keep track of these things,

this is Teacher Appreciation Week. It was initially suggested as a day

of recognition by the recently mentioned Eleanor Roosevelt, believe it or not, in the 1950s. And so we now

set aside a week in May every year to recognize the massive role, in almost every case,

massively positive role that public school teachers play in our lives. I guess private school teachers, too, really, not to exclude them

from teacher appreciation. So we find ways to say thank you. We're inviting anyone to call in right

now and say thank you to a teacher

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