Mi say if .... If I bex one more time mi .... mi probably just bussssss.
I am certain we as Jamaicans have all been feeling the pinch of the economy and all public sector employees are advocating against the bullshit 2+3 % the Government is offering. However I am being thoroughly educated by several individuals as to why......... "di ole greedy teacha dem" should not be advocating for a better offer.
Now .......mi nuh know wha some people really feel like a gwaan inna di Jamaican school dem, but it ain't no damn Sunday brunch. Teachers have to be in the classrooms as mothers, aunts , remedial tutors, janitors, and wayyyyyyyyyyyy down on the list they get to teach.
Heh...... yeah sooooo.. GSAT results are out now ........ and I am certain " di ole greedy teachers" had nothing to do with the excellent passes. I am certain that these parents who belittle teachers are the ones who provided the constant care and endless hours of instruction that made these results possible. Hiss mi damn teeth
I have listened while many self proclaimed " educated " individuals make statements as to how teaching is not a worthwhile profession, yet dem nah kip dem eaz haad pickney a dem damn yaad fi teach.
I hear people saying teachers get too much benefits...... and "why dem fi get more money when they get so many holidays off"....... look yah ...... most parents cant wait for September to arrive fi hurry up and pack up dem pickney and ship them off to school.
Because they know .... that truth be told .... their lil suzie or lil Johnny are truly horrible creatures.
And so the parents mentally count down the days for holiday to end so they can send them back to the arms of these persons in this most unworthy profession.
Lets be honest .......time is the only worthwhile medication for the a teachers from the stresses of the classroom, especially now when the classroom, like the society on a whole is an awfully scary place.
I would be totally biased if I didn't acknowledge that there are some individuals who are in the classroom with only thoughts of how they can better themselves, but these number in the few compared to the many teachers who take "their" children home with them everyday. And honestly those few individual must have been truly misinformed about the " stepping stone " that is the classroom. There are sooooo many more viable options that would provide better compensation for less effort, so ultimately the classroom eventually weeds these individuals out.
One of my co-workers said she experienced personally a tiefing teacher who did only wah get rich offa GSAT classes, purposefully not teaching the content required to ensure the students are well rounded in regular classes to ensure they come to extra lesson.
And to that I say .... that is so sad .... but oh God man don't group everybody in the cauldron to boil.
I am sure that there is more to it than that, and in addition to that, of the thirty thousand teachers; how many teach GSAT?.........(crosses legs and checks)
Who ever you are, or where ever you hail from whether you are an entrepreneur, a lawyer, a doctor or even a flipping forest creature ..... you wouldn't be where you are without the efforts of a teacher.
