Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.

Teachers don't want to have a letter sent home saying that they are not highly qualified, ... We likely will have a few of those letters that will have to go out. Hopefully in that letter, somehow we can explain to parents that we still feel like the teacher we have in that classroom is a very good teacher, who will do an excellent job.

It's a hard pill to swallow, ... Someone is questioning whether I'm highly qualified when I'm getting a student loan bill for my master's in the mailbox every month.

If you've ever been in a classroom, you know these teachers are underpaid.

There's not enough teachers for every classroom that we have.

I've seen teachers label just about everything in the classroom. And they'll put up a bulletin board that represents the different cultures in their classroom. That makes the child feel accepted.