Seriously,
Whoever says that teachers are the easiest job on earth,
Just because they work ‘half day’ and have their days off during school holidays,
They are totally wrong!!
To become a teacher is always my ambition.
Since I was a kid, I always pretended to be a teacher while playing with my neighbours.
I also had chalks and blackboards at the back of my house so that I could play as a teacher anytime I wanted.
I marked every books in my house (including storybooks), konon2 mcm jadi cikgu lah.. With red pens that I stole from my dad’s project case.
When I entered UTM for civil engineering course, I knew straight away that it wasn’t the
right place for me.
When I when for the interview, I knew that I did very well that they had to accept me for the course (ahaks, perasan)
But frankly, teachers at this millennium are no longer solitary educators.
They are also secretary, treasurers of some societies, and project managers of certain projects who need to attend meetings.
They need to fill up thousands of form, eg: PLBS forms (god knows what the f*** is this)
They need to make reports of certain things carried out in school and outside.
They are the emcees for any occasion held in schools,
They are the judges for any competitions,
They are the nurses when students fell down and got bleeding nose,
They also are chef during Sambutan hari kanak-kanak.
They are businesswomen to sell things to parents and students to collect extra money for Badan Kebajikan Guru & Kakitangan (BKGK)
They are lawyers to defend themselves or their friends who got accused of causing bruise on a student’s hand because the kid didn’t complete the homework,
They are accountants who needs to count students’ mark during each test and examination (total of 6 for the whole year) and rearranging their classes for next year,
They are also maids who sweep the students’ classroom and rearranging the chairs and tables.
They are deco consultants who in-charge of classroom’s walls and curtains.
And
Do you know how many programmes are being carried out in schools??
If you are a parent, or about to be, or planning to be, here are the things you need to remember in mind so that you won’t simply blame the TEACHERS when things go wrongs at some point.
Whoever says that teachers are the easiest job on earth,
Just because they work ‘half day’ and have their days off during school holidays,
They are totally wrong!!
To become a teacher is always my ambition.
Since I was a kid, I always pretended to be a teacher while playing with my neighbours.
I also had chalks and blackboards at the back of my house so that I could play as a teacher anytime I wanted.
I marked every books in my house (including storybooks), konon2 mcm jadi cikgu lah.. With red pens that I stole from my dad’s project case.
When I entered UTM for civil engineering course, I knew straight away that it wasn’t the
right place for me.
When I when for the interview, I knew that I did very well that they had to accept me for the course (ahaks, perasan)
But frankly, teachers at this millennium are no longer solitary educators.
They are also secretary, treasurers of some societies, and project managers of certain projects who need to attend meetings.
They need to fill up thousands of form, eg: PLBS forms (god knows what the f*** is this)
They need to make reports of certain things carried out in school and outside.
They are the emcees for any occasion held in schools,
They are the judges for any competitions,
They are the nurses when students fell down and got bleeding nose,
They also are chef during Sambutan hari kanak-kanak.
They are businesswomen to sell things to parents and students to collect extra money for Badan Kebajikan Guru & Kakitangan (BKGK)
They are lawyers to defend themselves or their friends who got accused of causing bruise on a student’s hand because the kid didn’t complete the homework,
They are accountants who needs to count students’ mark during each test and examination (total of 6 for the whole year) and rearranging their classes for next year,
They are also maids who sweep the students’ classroom and rearranging the chairs and tables.
They are deco consultants who in-charge of classroom’s walls and curtains.
And
Do you know how many programmes are being carried out in schools??
If you are a parent, or about to be, or planning to be, here are the things you need to remember in mind so that you won’t simply blame the TEACHERS when things go wrongs at some point.
- latihan sukan
- latihan sukaneka
- saringan sukan
- raptai hari sukan
- raptai hari sukaneka
- Kejohanan sukan dan sukaneka peringkat sekolah
- Kejohanan sukan peringkat daerah, negeri dan kebangsaan (if your school is selected)
- Sambutan maulidur rasul
- Kem bestari solat
- Kem motivasi tahun 6
- Kelas tambahan tahun 5 dan 6
- Kelas Nadi DBKL
- Mesyuarat PIBG
- Kursus dalam latihan (minimum of 7 days a year)
- Sambutan hari guru
- Sambutan hari kanak-kanak
- Sambutan hari perayaan (deepavali, tahun baru cina dan aidilfitri)
- Hari terbuka
- Hari kantin dan hari jualan Ko-kurikulum
- Minggu penghayatan disiplin
- Bulan kempen pencegahan rokok dan dadah
- Pemantauan Pengajaran dan pembelajaran
- Hari kanak-kanak
- Hari Guru
- Majlis anugerah cemerlang dan hari penyampaia hadiah
- Peperiksaan UPSR
- Pemeriksaan buku tulis (mengikut tahun)
- Sambutan hari kebangsaan
- Kursus here, kursus there, meeting here, meeting there..bla bla bla bla
Guess wut, for each and every function we held in school, there’s always paper works and documentations that need to be done. So, just imagine wut a bizarre amount of workload we are talking here. Despite that, we still take extra job to earn extra income because we think we are underpaid. We do tuition in tuition centres and school, we also do home tutoring. Yet, we face problems like pending payments, gaji tuition tak masuk, wutever wutever…
So, please lah people. Other than you need to respect teachers because they educate your kids, and because they have educated YOU to become who you are now (teachers, accountants, doctors, wutever wutever..), please DO NOT look down to teachers as though they are the nastiest job on earth. Please DO NOT leave your kids in schools and blame the teachers when you kid fell down or when your kid does not do well in test. We have 40 children to take care in each class and we teach 4 classes every day. We have to mark 160 books every day. For God sake, how many kids you have??? Like… two???
I think teachers may not earn as much as you are, but hello, most teachers are degree holders too. In fact, teachers are the most community who continue pursuing their higher education. I have seen accountants and doctors who just have given up about getting a higher qualification. And guess wut, at least, during this recession year and the turndown of the world’s economy which eventually has proven to affect Malaysian’s economy too, we don’t have to worry about being fired by our boss to minimize number of employees, or about whether or not our salary will be cut down. At least we are pretty sure that we can sleep soundly at night while others might have terror every time they watch Wall Street at CNN.
Guess wut, I might not have ‘datuk’ship, or lieutenant’ship’, or ‘engineer’ship, or even ‘accountant’ship, but the ‘cikgu’ title will stucked in my name like…forever. And I am bloody proud of that.
