once again, jeanne was right. then again, she's always right :P
(italics mine)
"I can hardly claim any false fraternity with full-time teachers despite having worked as a relief teacher for like. What. Under a month? (actually, around four months in my case) But nonetheless, it's been eye-opening. Perhaps this is a sort of retribution or grim justice for all those years of cruelty I must have inflicted on my own teachers, both deliberately or indirectly through passive defiance. (physics especially. possibly chem too.) I wasn't a Bad student I suppose but I can see now that I probably didn't exactly make my teachers' day either, particularly in secondary school. You know that common line teachers use as emotional blackmail/ammuno? It goes like 'If you're so clever why don't you come up here and teach? It's not easy you know!' and it precedes dramatic Shakespearean exeunts, discomfitting silences or even tears (in the case of pregnant teachers with hyperactive emotions). Well it's true, it really is.
Howsoever you may not want to admit it, students NEED teachers more than teachers need students. Teachers are always at the top of the food chain. Face it, they are smarter, cleverer, earn more money and are more intelligent than YOU, the pathetic, smart-alecky student, will ever be without their help. And yes you do need their help. So stop being like Avril Lavigne back when she thought 'Alternative' meant wearing ties with collar-less shirts and going around with too much eyeliner and a perpetual scowl, and pack away your Stupid, Pointless, Self-Destructive Rebellion. Instead, swallow your egos, shut up, sit still, listen, stop reading magazines and texting and just SUBMIT TO THE AWESOME POWER OF THE TEACHER!
Haha I'm beginning to sound like a dictator and my parents. I see myself aging into conservatism right before my computer screen.
It's not that I think students should be utterly acquiescent to their teachers. There should of course be some accountability on the part of teachers toward students but I think it's equally important that teachers get the respect they do before they can even think of respecting their students as mature, intelligent youth instead of 2 year old brats who need to be told off every other lesson. (now that last sentence was particularly relevant to some children i teach)"
seriously, it's scary the teacher-like things i find the other RTs and i saying now. things like "why won't they even help themselves?" or "why are children sooo lazy/irresponsible/immature/lacking in initiative/unaccountable?". i am now of the opinion that you have to be incredibly patient to still be in the teaching service after a year. as i was telling one of my sympathetic j2 juniors, "i just can't stand seeing children digging their own graves. sigh. (insert gripe about specific students who were digging said graves.) this is why i can't see myself as a teacher, i just know that i'll pop a vein (due to the immense anger that teaching such children will generate)and die before my bond is up." i cannot imagine myself having the patience to break children in, year after year, (possibly) see them progress as the year goes on, only to have to start the process all over again when new students come in and experience the same sort of aggravation with each new year.
to my teachers: respect sirs and madams, respect.
"I can hardly claim any false fraternity with full-time teachers despite having worked as a relief teacher for like. What. Under a month? (actually, around four months in my case) But nonetheless, it's been eye-opening. Perhaps this is a sort of retribution or grim justice for all those years of cruelty I must have inflicted on my own teachers, both deliberately or indirectly through passive defiance. (physics especially. possibly chem too.) I wasn't a Bad student I suppose but I can see now that I probably didn't exactly make my teachers' day either, particularly in secondary school. You know that common line teachers use as emotional blackmail/ammuno? It goes like 'If you're so clever why don't you come up here and teach? It's not easy you know!' and it precedes dramatic Shakespearean exeunts, discomfitting silences or even tears (in the case of pregnant teachers with hyperactive emotions). Well it's true, it really is.
Howsoever you may not want to admit it, students NEED teachers more than teachers need students. Teachers are always at the top of the food chain. Face it, they are smarter, cleverer, earn more money and are more intelligent than YOU, the pathetic, smart-alecky student, will ever be without their help. And yes you do need their help. So stop being like Avril Lavigne back when she thought 'Alternative' meant wearing ties with collar-less shirts and going around with too much eyeliner and a perpetual scowl, and pack away your Stupid, Pointless, Self-Destructive Rebellion. Instead, swallow your egos, shut up, sit still, listen, stop reading magazines and texting and just SUBMIT TO THE AWESOME POWER OF THE TEACHER!
Haha I'm beginning to sound like a dictator and my parents. I see myself aging into conservatism right before my computer screen.
It's not that I think students should be utterly acquiescent to their teachers. There should of course be some accountability on the part of teachers toward students but I think it's equally important that teachers get the respect they do before they can even think of respecting their students as mature, intelligent youth instead of 2 year old brats who need to be told off every other lesson. (now that last sentence was particularly relevant to some children i teach)"
seriously, it's scary the teacher-like things i find the other RTs and i saying now. things like "why won't they even help themselves?" or "why are children sooo lazy/irresponsible/immature/lacking in initiative/unaccountable?". i am now of the opinion that you have to be incredibly patient to still be in the teaching service after a year. as i was telling one of my sympathetic j2 juniors, "i just can't stand seeing children digging their own graves. sigh. (insert gripe about specific students who were digging said graves.) this is why i can't see myself as a teacher, i just know that i'll pop a vein (due to the immense anger that teaching such children will generate)and die before my bond is up." i cannot imagine myself having the patience to break children in, year after year, (possibly) see them progress as the year goes on, only to have to start the process all over again when new students come in and experience the same sort of aggravation with each new year.
to my teachers: respect sirs and madams, respect.