Isn't strange that sometimes there are so many things that you wanted to say to people but felt that the times and places were all wrong or that the people weren't really prepared to listen even if it was important?
Have been working a very engaging career ever since i joined the service a year back. A new bird people wouldn't qualify me as now as my colleagues tell me, yet experienced wouldn't exactly the words to be used either.
The job has been a challenging one... teaching by itself requires much energy and zeal, and much preparation in order to come up with a satisfying piece of work; yet school is never encouraging of such a culture. It would perhaps be far-fetched to say that some people in the past committed the fatal mistake of criticising teachers' work to be too free, thus that teaching has become more like managing corporate companies -- in which the children and education become the ultimate sufferers of such a phenomenon.
Sounds tough? Case to be made easier? Teaching used to be too little work? Tax payers complain -- teaching becomes a corporate management -- teachers become more of managers aka part-time maids.
In both cases the children are still the ultimate victims. It was never for these children that adults nowadays think and prepare for. We are all making our own perfect worlds, we fight from ranking to banding; we vie for the awards and statuses and we talk about distinguishing ourselves making an impact on students' lives.
Did we make it?
The answers seem to be yet apparent and vague at the very same time... ...
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