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Thank you, Mr. Frazier! You believed in our class's intellectual curiosity, and you believed that teaching DNA and RNA was not the exclusive right of college professors. (Remember, this was 1973, and please resist the temptation to do the math and calculate my ever-increasing age...) Thank you for leaving me with the indelible knowledge that children can learn important stuff before the textbooks and the academic machine thinks they are "ready" to learn it.
Every download of this doctor is supposed to be a thought provoking idea for the parenting wisdom of my readers. So ... who was your Mr. Frazier? Who was the educator who believed in you? Who gave you the love of learning by broadening your view of the world? Who was the professor who took a special interest in you and your unique gifts and talents? Could you tell that story to your family? Could you write it, and save it for a later time when your babies will need to hear it? There is no greater gift we give our children than the respect for knowledge and the wisdom to seek new ways of understanding the world. Never overlook the reality that it IS school, and in the end, school is sort of the enemy of childhood freedom. But the real VARSITY parents have figured out that when the loved teacher (be it kindergarten or 8th grade) says the same thing you've been saying for weeks, it somehow sounds different to a child. And in the end, who cares who teaches important values to my children? Mr. Frazier was telling the boys to wear deodorant and the girls to stop wearing those outfits and that make-up; and he was telling us all that we were smart enough to learn stuff that the college professors were teaching. What more could a parent ask of their child's teacher? As the school year winds down, honor those educators with a grateful note. Instead of another apple paperweight, gather your thoughts and say "Thank you. Mr. Frazier, you made a difference in the life of a child."
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