TGINTA

In case you are wondering what the title stands for it means: "Thank God I'm Not a Teacher Anymore"

Although I'm not a God believer but thinking about it makes me want to shout "Hallelujah" and give thanks to whoever is out there. After more than half a year away from the job, I'm still glad I chose to leave. Life away from being a teacher couldn't get any better. So what makes me say this? Recently I received an email from an ex-colleague (or rather my ex-boss) saying how terrible the Sec 3 classes were and how they bullied the poor relief teacher who finally could not take it and broke down and how the VP and my boss herself, despite going down to plead with the class but to no avail. Wow....I'm so glad I'm not the one who broke down and most likely I definitely will if I had continued to stay on. I mean I took these guys while they were in Sec 1 and they were already such devils, the first 2 months of this year only saddens me to know that they have not changed for the better and instead seemed to have gotten worse!

I would have loved teaching given other circumstances. The lousy treatment from the school and penultimate horrible students are the last straw. It saddens me to know that as a teacher there's only so much I can do/allowed to do. In a neighbourhood school there's so many problems to address and yet I can do little about them. The only saving grace of the job so far are the really wonderful colleagues and some of the really great students. Well I think teaching is just not the calling for me. But there are lots of people who continues this wonderful job and I believe they are really needed. But of course there are also slimes amongst who shove responsibility they have towards the job and still manage to survive well. Well, who asks the world to be made up of all sorts of characters.