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Among the teacher friends I have encountered, I never fail to see any of them who do not go around complaining about their jobs.
And here are the typical gripes:
1. Darn difficult to manage expectations of both students and parents.
Most jobs (especially service-related ones) requires some form of "answering" to customers anyway. Perhaps what they should to is to not freely give away their contact numbers to students and their parents.
2. Always being pressured by upper management to complete tasks on strict deadlines. Also need to endure office politics in the meanwhile.
Which job doesn't involve the above mentioned downsides? And I can say, there are several executive level jobs that require more level of "answering to" as compared to what is required of these teachers concerning their HODs. When it comes to office politics, most of the problems they complain about are merely petty issues such as who gets saddled with more relief teaching duties. Or which individuals gets ostracized by a common clique, who gets bullied by a certain pompous senior in the staff room. To be honest, all these are extremely trivial whimpering at best.
More at http://www.domainofexperts.com/2018/01/are-singaporean-school-teachers-whiners.html
And here are the typical gripes:
1. Darn difficult to manage expectations of both students and parents.
Most jobs (especially service-related ones) requires some form of "answering" to customers anyway. Perhaps what they should to is to not freely give away their contact numbers to students and their parents.
2. Always being pressured by upper management to complete tasks on strict deadlines. Also need to endure office politics in the meanwhile.
Which job doesn't involve the above mentioned downsides? And I can say, there are several executive level jobs that require more level of "answering to" as compared to what is required of these teachers concerning their HODs. When it comes to office politics, most of the problems they complain about are merely petty issues such as who gets saddled with more relief teaching duties. Or which individuals gets ostracized by a common clique, who gets bullied by a certain pompous senior in the staff room. To be honest, all these are extremely trivial whimpering at best.
More at http://www.domainofexperts.com/2018/01/are-singaporean-school-teachers-whiners.html
