Is this behaviour of teacher acceptable?
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Teachers can’t write but they can talk. I have friends and relatives in five different primary schools, each having taught between 10-30 years, including HODs. What you have described is 1) a poorly run/organized school with incompetent admin staff or 2) an inexperienced teacher.
I have never heard of a teacher cleaning up a child, not even in K2. I have heard of children who could not clean themselves well and are simply stinky until they got home. Of course they are laughed at by other students for the rest of the day. No one expects a teacher to clean the child up.
I do see both sides. I know the workload, I hear the complaints and how different schools and principals handle them. As a parent I also see where my son’s teacher/school is lacking in teaching and procedures - especially after checking with other parents and teacher-friends.
Teacher job is not easy (but all jobs come with their own challenges!) but they also have a lot of power over the kids in school. When power is abused, the kids just have to take it. My son came home last month looking unusually woozy and disoriented after sports CCA. It was a very hot day and the teacher in charge refused to give them extra water break. Her lousy answer to the students when they asked for water break was that they have to get used to the heat - all this while of course she was sitting in the shade. This was soon after the news of another student dying of heat stroke.
I can’t sing enough praises of my son’s last year’s teacher. Yet I really detest his teacher this year for all her incompetence in teaching and class management, and unprofessional behavior. Like every profession there is the good and the bad and i believe most parents can tell the difference. Unfortunately we cannot choose our children’s teachers the way we can choose their doctors. -
you haven’t heard of it doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
and no. These teachers have taught well over 10 years. They just have to do the impossible mission at times because NOBODY else is willing to do it.
yes. They can whine among colleagues, friends but no one can improve the situation unless the school management levels - Principal, VP, HODs, subject heads etc gather together and change the system. -
My point is teachers are not obligated to clean the kids up. And yes, principals make a lot of difference.
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junetan76:
:goodpost:you haven't heard of it doesn't mean it's not happening.
and no. These teachers have taught well over 10 years. They just have to do the impossible mission at times because NOBODY else is willing to do it.
yes. They can whine among colleagues, friends but no one can improve the situation unless the school management levels - Principal, VP, HODs, subject heads etc gather together and change the system. -
junetan76:
yes. They can whine among colleagues, friends but no one can improve the situation unless the school management levels - Principal, VP, HODs, subject heads etc gather together and change the system.
the situation can change if school management of MORE schools get together...or else it will just be another donkey more years of whining. -
mummy of three:
School teachers don’t teach which is why we end up hiring tutors, MOE should do something about it.
I would like to think that this kind of teachers is only minority. But of course there are teachers that can teach and teachers that cannot teach. -
ngl2010:
some teachers can teach but they can't control the class.mummy of three:
School teachers don’t teach which is why we end up hiring tutors, MOE should do something about it.
I would like to think that this kind of teachers is only minority. But of course there are teachers that can teach and teachers that cannot teach.
my son's form teacher can teach but she can't control the class,always hear from my son that she shouts until no voice :roll: -
some old timer teachers oso refuse to use gadgets.
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vinegar:
some teachers can teach but they can't control the class.ngl2010:
[quote=\"mummy of three\"]School teachers don’t teach which is why we end up hiring tutors, MOE should do something about it.
I would like to think that this kind of teachers is only minority. But of course there are teachers that can teach and teachers that cannot teach.
my son's form teacher can teach but she can't control the class,always hear from my son that she shouts until no voice :roll:[/quote]my son's former teacher could not control the class, could not teach and was biased.
But I too would like to think she is the minority. A good teacher is wonderful and makes all the difference in the world. My children have benefited from good teachers, but when we meet a bad one who single out the child, it is necessary to do damage control in a timely fashion.
On a separate note, I appreciate teachers like those recently in the news for Oklahoma Tornado. And in the Sandy Hook shooting.
Teachers ARE important. A good teacher with mettle and right aptitude is invaluable. They can make such a difference to the students in the normal day to day. In extraordinary circumstances, they can mean the difference between life and death. A good teacher generally has a giving nature and a cool head.
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