Who's job is it anyway?

Foreword:
Sorry for the lack of updating my bloggie. I wished I could said that I'm on hiatus due to overload of schoolwork/ assignment but the fact is.. I'm not.

It's just that I'm kind of addicted to my new found hobby other than blogging...i.e. gambling for only 10cents playing lami. CNY is ending soon... So forgive me for trying to make full use of it before I lost all the 'mood'.

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This entry that I'm going to blog is something I'd wished to write for a really long time. And, I got a feeling that it's going to be a boring one.

When I first became a teacher almost 7 months ago, I noticed that there's a huge difference between "being a student" at my time and now.


Let me ask you a question.

Try thinking back. Back in your days, or my days... If we went home and told our mum or dad that we got scolded or 'rotan' by our teachers, what will be their reaction?

My mum would said, "Very good. Must be you who had did something wrong. Did you talked a lot in the class or didn't pass up your homework?"

But parents nowadays will dashed into the principals' office without asking what happened actually and complained about the teacher. And the student.... of course happy lah, since got back-up. Sure they'll think, "See if you dare to touch me again."



I swear, that really happens...all, or most of the time.

There was this kid who picked a fight in school and nearly hit the class teacher when he/she tried to stop it. Of course, when the school knew about it, they called up the student's parent and asked them to come to school to talk about this issue...

Proper procedure right?

But, what if the parent choose not to show up and ignore the whole issue?



Another one.

A teacher talked to a parent regarding her son about his learning ability and concentrating in class and wish that they can work together and do something about it.

Guess what. She shouted, "YOU'RE RUBBISH! SO WHAT NOW? YOU WANNA KILL HIM FOR THAT? OR YOU WANNA STRANGLE HIM AND HIT HIM?" and walked into the principal office and of course, complained, complained and complained again....

The thing is... the teacher never did anything to the kid!

He was just trying to show his concern to his student. Is that wrong?



A friend told me that she had a student who finished doing the whole workbook by January. FYI, she taught primary 1.

Who will buy that? I mean.. would you believe that a primary 1 student would have such perfect handwriting and answered all questions correctly? Even those chapters that had not been taught yet?

She questioned, questioned and questioned, from the gentle and soft voice to that angry tone telling that she's going to erase all the answers and asked the student to re-do again.

In the end the student confessed, the mum did it all...

And undoubtedly, the student failed to answer the exam papers because he never learn and practiced.


And every time I heard news like this.... I gave a loud and long sigh....
"Who's job is it anyway? Parents or teachers?"

Being a parent, they want to give all the best to their children.

Being a teacher, we want to teach them well and let them lead the way...

(Okay.. I copied it from some lyrics... :p)

And thus, parents and teachers should work closely together trying to find the best solutions for the children, and not attacking each other. Right?



If the parent themselves don't give face to the teachers, how to expect that their children to show respect to them(teachers)?


It's like..

When I saw my student spit on the floor, I told them that it's wrong to do so and they shouldn't do it again.

But the next thing I saw is the parent doing the same thing...

I wished I got the guts and nerves going up to man and tell him that he should set himself as a role model for his children...

Oh well, there goes the long sigh and shaking my head.



Children nowadays are really lucky to born this time where people emphasize on the 愛的教育, (Love Education?).

Back in my days, one question unfinished = one rotan.
And now is, student: "I don't care."

Parents and teachers are advised not to use the old school punishment, but talked them through. Be nice and repeat over and over again up to 100 times asking them "Please don't do it again.", "Please finish your homework.", "Please *this and that*".

And so, what you think?

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p/s: Parents reading this, I'm not saying that ALL of you are like that, I'd came across some really nice one.

Please do trust the teachers at school. What we do is all for your children's own good. Unless your child come back with a lot of bruises and blue black lah, that's a whole different story.


p/p/s: All the above photos posted were taken during the "Rentas Desa" (Cross country race) last February.

p/p/p/s: The next photo you're going to see if my girls who won the second place for the inter-school Netball match for the Belait district, with the two teachers who shouted their lungs out cheering and scolding about the position & tactic. Hahhahaa.