A very long day today, with fumbling with the reports slips and the lessons going on at the same time yet having also the Parent-Teacher Meeting session.
I had to run around the office talking to teachers for the PTM and also to understand more from them and how i can help better as a form teacher.. knowing their backgrounds and so on.
So practically i felt that there wasn't even much time to breathe the entire day. There was this sense of dread and stress, that it would not be possible to capture the relevant data and stuff...
1110 spelt the end of lessons and i had to go down to the canteen to meet Yoshi, as he had purposefully came down to school to visit me -- i mean i have grown to appreciate the fact that it takes a lot on the students to come down and visit an ex teacher, and thus i should make every effort to at least talk to him. But alas there wasn't enough time... felt a little apologetic though... but then bell rang before i could finish lunch (morever the elders always like to say 吃饭皇帝大！), so in the end i had to finish lunch whilst talking ...
Met a lot of parents and in midst of all those talking, its seems to me that society nowadays is so stressful and busy that parents often do not have enough time or the chance to do qualitative things with their children. Sometimes a child who does not do well may have some kind of communicative problems with his parents? Or if a child does not do well, is it because he is not in sync enough with his parents' desires for him to do well? What part does the environment play for this same child to want to do well for his studies or when we come down to things at its rawest form, there is something lacking which is causing results that do not meet expectations?
The session really bring me many thoughts each time .. .not to mention the length of it. When i ended at around 5 plus, i realised my entire level was already bare, with the auntie staring me with seemingly grudging eyes as usual.
And then went down and found out that CCA was still on! Thus began another part of my work (sometimes wonder how much a teacher can do when he is faced with so many things and yet have to be at his best every single time -- are we humans?) Saw a bit of some scenes that i wasn't very happy with and decided to do something about it. Sometimes plain talking does not get the point across to the leaders.
Being a leader is more than just standing in front of the juniors and be just looking smart. It takes more than appearance and presentation skills to impress and impart knowledge. If there is no resolve and determination to complete tasks and responsibilities, then it would all come to naught at the end of the day.
Thus i have to try to do something.. sometimes u figure that success and failure does not seem any important at all when you have at least tried to do your part. But however it also means no senseless blind trying. It must be with purpose and meaning and it must be done with such resolve that the idea will go across.
Don't ask me how it can be done as i do not know how to impart such skills, but at the end of it all i guess sincerity and heart is very important and only with the former can then let us achieve what we have set out to do in the 1st place.
To conclude, some article in the papers argued that demand and support must be given in measured proportion; all demand and no support will give rebellious kids but whereas all support and no demand will spoil them.
Balance is the key.
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