Saturday, August 08, 2009

If Parents were Teachers, Teachers not need be Teachers

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A friend of a friend of mine blasts a parent at school as the parent said that why expel or suspend a student, it would only crush the students' motivation for schooling and no wonder that particular student never did well in school. It's all the teacher's fault because the teacher never gave that student a chance.


I heard and I was angry! As a teacher, who wouldn't?


and because I am, and another reason would be that I kept giving my students compositions to do as they are so weak in that certain area therefore I would like to make my own piece of essay.


To whom it may concern,


You know, you wouldn't have needed teachers if you were superhuman but you're not, so there. You have to understand that teachers are here and there and everywhere for a reason. If you have taught all that there is about life and everything that comes with it, teachers wouldn't have to do it for you.


Teachers are like second parents yet some of you are just so caught up with your own lives, you forget that you hand in your children to teachers to teach, nurture, to build character and all that just for your student to become holistic. If nothing satisfies you, perhaps you heard of home schooling? Yeah, home school has produce few famous geniuses.


You think you're so perfect but you're not and you say that no one is. Well, doesn't that apply to teachers too? Have you forgotten about teachers? Have you forgotten that the teacher standing in front of you and your child is imperfect?


Do you even know how hard it is to teach? and can you see why some teachers prefer the top classes? If your child is in the bottom class, do you know why? Do you even care? Have you try asking?


When your child makes mistakes, have you tried interrogating your child? or did you leave all those grillings to the discipline teacher? and if you do, are you satisfied? If not, why? What else could you possibly want?


Did teachers ever really crush a student's motivation? How? and why would teachers do that? Do they really? Must be some bad apples then. Could your child possibly be rotten too? Could you see pass that and investigate?


Do you know the meaning of expel and suspend? Get a dictionary or ask a language teacher to help. You look at your child and see a halo, well, that's not what the teacher saw, go figure.


If you gave your child chances, perhaps teachers would have done the same too...


How many points for this continuous piece of writing? maybe not much because there's too many questions. Could you have answer then?

2 comments:

PoetryGirl said...

i dont know why these parents bother... for me, dont bother sending ur kids to school unless you have enuff faith in the teachers to make something of ur useless brats... coz only a teacher can do that, given the power to do what a teacher needs to do. ni nak jentik budak2 korang ajar pun tak boleh, mana tak nyer budak2 tu bedebah?

wanderfulmadnificent said...

tell me about it eva! in your face la parents who are like these! grrr, geram! even though i tak kena lagi but just hearing stories like this and that of a parent telling off a teacher and so on and so forth just makes us teachers panassss :<