Welcome to the forum at last. We often hear that nurses are "angels" but teachers come in for a lot of criticism. I am the daughter of a nurse and have been a pupil at schools and a college.
IMHO there is no real difference between nurses and teachers. Both do a difficult and stressful job, some are far from being "angels" but others go beyond what is expected of them. Nursing and teaching are both vocations and it is sad that teachers are not given the recognition they deserve.
Saddest thing to me is the way teacher/pupil interaction has changed. A friend taught art at a small private school near me for a few years before she retired. She was not allowed to give a child a hug if it was upset, she could not even put on a sticking plaster. Do not touch any child she was told. These were younger children and in my day such things were allowed. Of course a hug had to be for a distressed child and preferably when other children or adults were around.
I know the rule is to protect the child and the adult but the biggest loser is the child. An arm round them, a shoulder to cry on etc all make for emotional healing and emotional well being for the child.
Kev's spelling would put my dyslexic husband to shame. Do you help him to get his posts "right" so that it makes sense without being grammatical and well spelt?
Keep smiling because the light at the end of someone's tunnel may be you, Ron Cheneler