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Here’s my take on some of the comments he made.

Teaching today is not a piece of cake. It is emotionally and physically draining. It is not for the faint-hearted.

Tell me about it! One class at the moment I find intensely difficult to work with at my school.  Really snapped quite sharply at a few kids this week.

Mind you, it was worse in Blacktown last year.....

supporting the ministry of Christian teachers should be a priority for every one of our churches. They are shaping our future.

You can’t hear me, of course - but right now, I am giving what my school calls a “silent cheer”.

There is no doubt that Christian classroom teachers transform lives. This is not just empty rhetoric. For some children, their class teacher exercises more influence over their impressionable minds than their parents. For teens, their teachers may be modelling the only taste of Christlikeness they will ever see.

We must encourage more committed Christians to enter teaching as a vocation.

There but for the grace of God go we. We’re not superheroes by any stretch of the imagination.....

Pray for Christian teachers: that they will reflect the love of God to those they teach

Yes, please! This is SO hard to do. Especially if the teacher is me!

and through their teaching contribute to the transformation of thousands of young lives.

In God’s timing, and through God’s grace & mercy, of course.

TZ.