If teachers were treated the same way as cops at DU, Part 2

[WonderGrunion]

Since my last controversial OP on this topic, I've seen several OPs about hero cops. One of the comments during my thread was "Why don't we see OPs about hero teachers?"

I wish to remedy that right now.

http://www.enfieldindependent.co.uk/news/8297308.Hero_teacher_s_first_aid_skills__save_life__during_school_concert/

Latymer School buys defibrillator after hero teacher Barry Berndes performs CPR on elderly concertgoer

A TEACHER is being hailed a hero for helping save the life an elderly man who stopped breathing during a school concert.

Physics teacher Barry Berndes, 50, sprang into action at Latymer School’s end of year Gala on July 14, helping to resuscitate 67-year-old member of the audience after he suffered a heart attack and stopped breathing for ten minutes.

The elderly man, who was accompanying the grandparent of a 14-year-old girl who was performing in the concert, had collapsed in a gallery in the school hall after telling his companion he was feeling unwell and was going outside to get some fresh air.

With the music of the Pixar film The Incredibles still playing in the background, Mr Berndes, started giving the man CPR.

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/eveningnews24/norwich-news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=xNews&itemid=NOED23%20Jul%202010%2014%3A41%3A57%3A203

Costessey school block named in memory of hero teacher

STEVE DOWNES

Last updated: 24/07/2010 17:00:00

The widow of a heroic teacher who inspired hundreds of youngsters has spoken of her pride that a state-of-the-art new block at the school where he taught has been named after him.

The £2.8m IT block at Ormiston Victory Academy, Costessey, will be called the Luke Day Centre - in memory of the former Costessey High teacher who died while on his honeymoon in January.

Mr Day, 31, a hugely popular teacher at the Middleton Crescent school, drowned on January 18 while trying to save his wife after a storm capsized their boat on River Nile in Egypt.

The French teacher made a big impact on students during his time at Costessey, thanks to his sense of fun during lessons and his musically-inspired teaching.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_14458672

Hailed as hero, math teacher leapt to stop attack



Deer Creek Middle School math teacher David Benke was doing parking lot duty as school was letting out when he heard what he thought were firecrackers.

It was the sound of gunfire.

Benke, a 57-year-old teacher who has been at the school for a decade and whom students call "Dr. Benke," walked toward the sound and saw a man stooped over a rifle filling the chamber with another round.

"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to grab him before he got a second shot off," Benke said from his home in Littleton. "I grabbed him, and I think he dropped the gun. Basically we danced around."

Another math teacher, Norm Hanne, ran into the fray and wrestled with the shooter, Hanne on top and Benke on the bottom. A third teacher,

Becky Brown, came and grabbed the gun. Hanne declined to comment; Brown could not be reached.

http://www.maconnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=9959&Itemid=34

Shields given hero’s farewell by students and teachers



By Christopher Carpenter
Staff Writer

As he stepped in view, the packed gymnasium literally exploded in cheers and applause. Franklin High School Principal Gary Shields scanned the room and was visibly moved to find it full to capacity with the students and faculty of the school he has led for the past 21 years all standing and clapping, all wearing white t-shirts bearing the slogan for the afternoon, “Remember the legend.”

An uninformed bystander might have assumed the man entering the room was some kind of rock star or sports hero. Banners were hung around the room. “The man. The myth. The legend,” read one banner. “We love you Mr. Shields!” read another.

Earlier this year, Shields announced he would be retiring and the assembly in the gym was to honor the work he had done. Though rumors had circulated throughout Franklin over recent weeks, somehow the organizers of the event were able to keep it a secret from their principal. It was just one further indication of the profound respect and admiration the students have for Shields that the whole school was in on the secret but still managed to keep it a surprise until the final period of Friday afternoon, May 28.

Shields greeted several individuals in the bleachers and sitting behind a podium on the floor before taking the seat that had been reserved for him.

“We are here to welcome the best and greatest principal in the United States of America,” said former FHS football coach Fred Goldsmith, who opened an itinerary of speakers and presentations in honor of Shields. The room again erupted in cheers, as it would repeatedly throughout the afternoon, drowning out the sound of thunder and hail from the storm that hit Franklin that afternoon.

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[Dennis Donovan]

1. Recommended - teachers ARE heroes!

Far more than Cops are, that's for sure!!

[ixion]

2. Teachers: Society's most under-rated member.

I consider them to be one of the most important... the good ones, at least. :)

[Crystal Clarity]

4. Yes teachers are very underrated

and unlike cops, the few bad apples among them always seem to be charged criminally for alleged crimes; as opposed to merely paid and unpaid suspensions or firings for the 'bad apple' cops.

[Heidi]

3. It's nice to see people being called heroes for going beyond what's expected of them.

Thanks for the reminder of what heroism really is.

Recommended.

[WonderGrunion]

5. Maybe that's why some people don't consider cops to be heroes

They are expected to put their life on the line to protect and serve the public.

[Heidi]

11. True.

I try to treat every person acting within the boundaries of his/her job with respect, and I believe every person, including LEOs, should be fairly compensated. However, since we no longer have a draft, few Americans are coerced into their professions, and I find the term "hero" so overused that it tends to devalue true heroism.

As an aside, it's interesting that anyone still remembers the old "protect and serve" calling. I knew a county sheriff in a Plains state who described his department's mission as to "monitor and enforce."

[Tsiyu]

6. This "DU hates cops" crap is so patheitc

If you wanted to post about teachers, you could have done so without insulting the members of this board.

Proof that you're cookoo?

There's a thread right now on the homepage about a good cop with 73 recs. Doesn't fit your stereotype I'm sorry to say.

Unrecc'ing not because I dislike teachers, but because the OP is merely an attention-seeking, negative ploy to start a flame fest.



Again, this meme against DU is pathetic. I'm sick of the users of this board who have to trash its members every chance they get.

[WonderGrunion]

7. The Op is celebrating Hero Teachers

Why crap all over good posts?

[Tsiyu]

9. "If teachers were treated the same way as cops at DU"

Why crap all over your own thread title? It seems to have more to do with resentment at DU than respect for teachers.

I can read.

[WonderGrunion]

10. My OP makes reference to the thread praising a cop

This is a counter-OP to my original OP which was seen as crapping over teachers by posting a laundry list of bad teachers the same way that a laundry list of bad cops had been posted earlier in General Discussion.

Can you understand what you read?

[stray cat]

8. Many DU posters label police as worthless pigs and Fascists -

police are the only union workers that DU seems to despise. It is one thing to condemn individual acts by police but many DUers condemn the whole group in mass - which is called bigotry

[msongs]

12. "many" - how many? got any facts to go with that allegation? btw a hero IMO is a

person who goes above and beyond what they agreed to do. Just being in the military or police or teaching does not make one a hero. Showing up for a job you chose to do is not heroic for the most part.

Msongs

[WonderGrunion]

13. You fail to see the miracles in the mundane

Our society exists because of the efforts of millions of everyday heroes "just doing their job" and not putting themselves ahead of others.

[proteus_lives]

14. +10,000

[LWolf]

15. Teachers are heroes because they

show up every day in the face of a mountain of obstacles: public disdain, political attacks, under-funding, under-staffing, over-crowding, inadequate facilities, inadequate resources, authoritarian policies that hinder success, some indifferent and hostile students and families, some students who have been abused, who are hungry, cold, mentally ill, disabled...

yet they show up every day to try to make a positive difference that day, and, one day at a time, in those lives.

Teachers don't have to be written up in the paper for extraordinary acts, or be honored at gatherings, to be heroes. They already are, every day.

[spin]

16. K&R (n/t)