Amidst all the screaming, pounding fists, running and yearning, one must wonder how much stress teachers are under while in this school. Extrapolate that and one can really be surprised at how much pressure teachers, in mainstream schools, are under - technically it is no surprise to me since I have first-hand experience with a primary school teacher.
Like many other jobs, this profession is pretty much thankless. To be reiterate, one should not expect much remuneration when being in this job. This is a job where the effort of the individual is not reaped overnight, but rather over an extended period of time, or even when the student has long left the care of the teacher. So who is really responsible for any "success"? Does it necessarily mean that a teacher who has straight A students under her tutelege is significantly better than a teacher who has students barely passing?
There are many perspectives and points to this topic and I do not wish to discuss it here - at least not yet.
There has been recent circulation of quotes on facebook regarding topics of "yes-men" and "standing up for what you are right", and I can't help but feel perturbed at it. Maybe I do not have a backbone or a personal voice, but it seems that I always try to put my shoes in others. I seem to be the innocuous one, adverse to any forms of belligerence.
But what if being able to agree with different, even contrasting, views is in fact a stand by itself? Of course I am not obsequiously agreeing, but rather I see logic in that perspectives - by drawing boundaries. I do not like extremes. I like balance, and diplomacy is what I believe in. But in retrospect, it is in fact my sitting on the fence that makes people scorn at me. Maybe that indeed is my stand?
I really look forward to a discussion about myself with anyone close. Problem is... who?
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