RE: ADSactly Reflections: Stories and Faces
First of all, congratulations for the job you do, the most important one in any country, the least rewarded too, at least in Venezuela. Enjoy your more than deserved vacations.
Ironically, now that teachers get paid less, they have to work more. As you point out, teachers have to play the role of counselors, psychologist, psyquiatrists, social workers, parents, friends, and artists (to work on all the boards that must be put out in display so that people who care little about them can see that their children's school is running smoothly).
I can relate to your frsutration
It is so much what we sometimes want to do for our students, it is so much impotence that you feel when you fight but you can not change their reality of life as we would like.
We could all have done more, but when the system is designed to keep children ignorant and teachers busy worrying about food or medicine; when there is a legal aparatus working to modify all laws to favor an ideological agenda instead of the children the system is supposed to serve; when you have colleagues who kneel before any authority, even the most immoral ones, there is no much for us to do, exept keep our sanity and our love for the art of education.
If we did our job well, that seed of inquiry and intellectual curiosity will bear fruits sooner or later.
My friend,@hlezama each of your words is very precise. It is a sad reality that the teachers of this country live. Our salaries are shameful, without social security, we see how every day our students suffer for their needs, food, medicine, abandonment, however, the love for what we do makes us strong and motivates us to move forward. Many times I have been close to making the decision to leave my job, but for this I prepared myself in life and I don't want to do anything else. Unfortunately there are few teachers, many have emigrated, I refuse to be one more of those who make this difficult decision. Let's hope everything changes, because I miss my country even when I'm in it.Thank you for your comment.
That's probably the saddest state
Everything has changed so much we feel like strangers in our own land. If this is what tener patria means, I'd rather be an expatriate.
I have been thinking about how hard it will be to go back to an educational system where students actually study and teachers actually teach and where every actor involved is accountable. To end this age of laziness and ignorance will be teachers' greatest challenge.
Certainly, it is hard work, is to change that mentality of laziness, waiting to be given, is a change that unfortunately will not come only with a change of government, the damage has been profound, that is why the importance and responsibility of parents and teachers in training these young children in respect, honesty, in the value of earning things for themselves, they are the hope of this country