Is this behaviour of teacher acceptable?
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Do you think primary school teachers actually wash backsides?? The children are sent to the office, given extra clothes and told to sort themselves out in the toilet and go back to class themselves. Primary school is not childcare.
Teachers, like some other professions, have to multi task to an extent and have to be very organized. Some people are good at it, some people are just bad at it. -
even the admin staff n assistants r well-equiped n very good in "resource mgmt".
when i picked up my injured son,the admin staff asked her assistant to get his school bag fr. classroom.After 15mins,it was my son’s classmate who brought his school bag to us,not the assistant.
within the school mgmt staff,they themselves oso hv to face lots of office politics.The teacher told me that she has to buy food fr admin staff,in order to get beta support. -
my frd who did her PV, was asked to buy some beauty product fr. the admin staff.She rejected her & she was given unfair treatment while she was serving her PV.
She was given more jobs,longer hours(some of those extra jobs/hours were not recorded).Finally,she completed her PV. -
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:
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