There are shared issues here as well. Education is a provincial jurisdiction and our government is a diarrhea about it (and then, they have the guts to wonder why teachers either move to another province to practice their profession (how insane that they would want better working conditions!) or resign and change careers (how insane that they would want better pay and schedules!)). I watched a couple of youtube videos by ex-teachers from the US. It's sadly all too relatable. The differences I noticed, however, were that here, if students misbehave, they will be disciplined, school is not a 'free-for-all', although it's slowly turning like it because classgroups are bigger with more students with special needs, but less and less specialists to take care of those students. We have a major infrastructure problem: contaminated water, insulation, heating and mold issues. My friend had mold in her classroom. When she reported it, she was told to open the windows--air is natural ventilation, after all. In their flawless logic, they forgot that it was -20°C outside.
I tutor mostly students from the private sector, I hear less of building issues, but they have similar issues to the public sector: shortage of teachers, some classes have no teachers at all (the 2022-2023 scored the year with the most teacherless (a word I totes made up) classes).
But seeing my work as that of a skilled professional foremost and not a nurturer and caregiver (of which I am neither) is an uphill battle. Yes, that's a cultural issue as well. During my grandparents' time, on either side of the ocean (half of my family is from Western Europe), students were expected to be well behaved. Raising children was first and foremost the parents' duty. Now, eh. With all the stories I hear...
However, it's too easy to make babies (don't need brains to copulate, cells multiply like champions), and many parents neglect their children, and children are left on their own with teachers as the closest to a parent figure they can get. On the other side of the spectrum, parents behaving like they're little emperors, giving way to mollycoddled children, and blame teachers for nothing and everything. Teachers care a lot and go out of their way to help children and teens (like my friends paying extra food out of their pockets for their students and dealing with children's protection services), never are given credits for it.
Teachers are expected to be teachers, secretaries, psychologists, social workers, parents, bureaucratic experts, a bank, and so on! For Glaurung's sake. Schoolboards aren't the ones dealing with the clientele, and that shows. If they spent an entire week in a classroom, things would miraculously change (them and the government).
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Date: 2022-10-07 04:30 pm (UTC)There are shared issues here as well. Education is a provincial jurisdiction and our government is a diarrhea about it (and then, they have the guts to wonder why teachers either move to another province to practice their profession (how insane that they would want better working conditions!) or resign and change careers (how insane that they would want better pay and schedules!)). I watched a couple of youtube videos by ex-teachers from the US. It's sadly all too relatable. The differences I noticed, however, were that here, if students misbehave, they will be disciplined, school is not a 'free-for-all', although it's slowly turning like it because classgroups are bigger with more students with special needs, but less and less specialists to take care of those students. We have a major infrastructure problem: contaminated water, insulation, heating and mold issues. My friend had mold in her classroom. When she reported it, she was told to open the windows--air is natural ventilation, after all. In their flawless logic, they forgot that it was -20°C outside.
I tutor mostly students from the private sector, I hear less of building issues, but they have similar issues to the public sector: shortage of teachers, some classes have no teachers at all (the 2022-2023 scored the year with the most teacherless (a word I totes made up) classes).
But seeing my work as that of a skilled professional foremost and not a nurturer and caregiver (of which I am neither) is an uphill battle.
Yes, that's a cultural issue as well. During my grandparents' time, on either side of the ocean (half of my family is from Western Europe), students were expected to be well behaved. Raising children was first and foremost the parents' duty. Now, eh. With all the stories I hear...
However, it's too easy to make babies (don't need brains to copulate, cells multiply like champions), and many parents neglect their children, and children are left on their own with teachers as the closest to a parent figure they can get. On the other side of the spectrum, parents behaving like they're little emperors, giving way to mollycoddled children, and blame teachers for nothing and everything. Teachers care a lot and go out of their way to help children and teens (like my friends paying extra food out of their pockets for their students and dealing with children's protection services), never are given credits for it.
Teachers are expected to be teachers, secretaries, psychologists, social workers, parents, bureaucratic experts, a bank, and so on! For Glaurung's sake. Schoolboards aren't the ones dealing with the clientele, and that shows. If they spent an entire week in a classroom, things would miraculously change (them and the government).