Teacher is not a Cheater

I have been a teacher and I love to be (But as of now I have been doing other works more than teaching.) I have been learning to teach. I have been showing the world. I have been creating stories, poems, and minds. I have been acting to be an ethical, innovative, and usable one. I have been listening, reading, writing, and speaking. I have been making rules for the class, games, co-curricular activities and I have been a part of it. I have been a father. I have been a mother. I have been a servant. And for all of these, I have sometimes become a scapegoat.

Teaching is good but our system is no good at all. We don’t have support as such. There is no support from parents, the government, our management and society. Last time, after my studies, the Ministry of Education and the Human Resource Officers have brutally separated my family and me and placed me in a different place. I heard similar stories from others too. I don’t know what good is there to motivate teachers.

I laughed when other office agencies tell me that they are busy. I saw them busying the whole day on their Facebooking, chattings, gamings and making josh. I cannot kill the time if I were one of them. That’s why teachers like me are overburdened with responsibilities. We are multi-tasked. We should be a housemaster, warden, matron, sports instructor, organizer, dancer, singer, kicker, baller, etc, look after co-curricular activities besides teaching. We have no time for cheating. But we are paid very low and we are only paid for teaching. Besides all, there is an indicated expectation of improving the quality of teaching and education. What else could we expect from overworked, burned-out teachers with minimal wages and no proper working space? On the other hand, we have been bogged down with obligations.  MoE must initiate some careful interventions before it's too late to retain our teachers.

Teachers live in pathetic conditions. They don’t have quarters like other departments. They live in huts (Teachers where I am working live in huts). If you look at the working rooms, tables, chairs, etc, they are miserable than many low grades servants. They don’t have computers in front of them to make notes. Teachers are deprived of many facilities, where office workers enjoy a great deal.

Less innovative and less creative heads of the school judge gurujis on the level of outbound activities, like theirs lip services, kitchen gardening, etc, not teaching as such. There are loud-mouth non-performers who get the highest grade. The good, born and earnest teachers get demotivated at least.

To be continued…