Teachers
are the human force that shape up a generation. Teaching is not another job; it
is a way of living. Students shape up their lives - sometimes without knowing
by looking at the role models provided by teachers. Teachers are not just
teachers: they are counselors, coaches, parents, friends who work for a small
salary. They burn their mental calories which hardly most people can imagine.
They work with thirty to forty students who have different personalities and multi
levels of understanding. They struggle to discipline them, keep them quiet,
battle to keep the students focus while finding a way to teach them in between.
One can say it is an easy job but if you are not in teachers’ shoes, you have
no right to tell that sentence – no way.
Society
expect teachers to be role models, make students disciplined as well as teach
their children well. They want teachers to be perfect and educate their
children to have a better future - but how many of them actually think what actually
teachers require! They hardly understand the mental toil they undergo during
the course of teaching. (You cannot understand the paper work too!) Teachers
too are human who have same human features like you and me; they too have
family lives, goals and dreams in their lives but do you know that teachers
take your children in their mind whole day, week and months? They think and
prepare for your child mentally during the morning, evening and at night! Yes,
for your child! whom you have given the responsibility to shape up and keep you
at ease. Let me ask you one thing, who is in the society take the
responsibility of your child to shape up their future?
Now you may
argue that it is the job of the teachers to teach the children. Yes, without
any doubt. What I wanted to explain here is: don’t teachers deserve some
respect? They do a hard job to shape up our children for a meager salary of
course, why people expect more from them? If they make a single mistake,
society is waiting to jump on them like hounds. Criticizers are keeping their
sharp eyes on them to undone their lifetime hard work. Policy makers and people
above them are always ready to hammer them at any time! Parents and students
think that they are to teach and they get a salary for that! My question is don’t
teachers deserve more than this?
If you or
anyone still have doubts about how hard teaching is please try to teach your
child - not one hour at least four or six hours for a month or a week perhaps.
Go to a classroom mentally, or physically where there are forty students like
your child; teach them actually or think that you are teaching them for a week
or more! then you will have a little idea not the actual mental experience about
teaching. If you can’t do that, you have no right to comment on teachers’
commitment.
Let us
change our attitudes, rather than complaining the teacher and expecting more
from them. Try to help your child to increase his or her grade. Help them to
revise their lessons at least an hour a day at home. Do not expect everything
from the teacher, they have a load of work which you can never imagine. During
that course, they still teach your child patiently. If you keep on criticizing them,
it will definitely affect the quality of their profession and the professional
outcome. That has already happened – do not throw the whole responsibility of
that on to teachers. They will be only effective if they are given some
respect, that’s all. Don’t you still think that they deserve at least that
much?
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