Teachers were respected and principals feared.

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"She has been someone who has been respected by the kids, the parents and teachers, " he said.

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Jose van Kooten at the Rientjes Mavo school in Maarssen, near Utrecht, said that teachers did not always feel that society respected their profession.

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Education should have a well-established, well-respected information system that yields varied and comprehensive indicators about kids, teachers, schools and school systems. (Any number of worthy organizations are trying to do something about that, including the Data Quality Campaign, the Council of Great City Schools, and GreatSchools.org).

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We, artists of comics are not well respected inside the industry, and are paid as much as public school teachers if we are lucky.

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Scotland's teachers currently do their best to ensure that ALL pupils are respected but Section 28 is a barrier to their work and undermines the application of these principles.

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