Something I found while surfing - makes a lot of sense in this period of life.
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Friday, March 30, 2007
Pet Peeves
Students who stand in the door of the staff room and wait for teachers – I realize they are deprived of the air-con but hello have some common sense – be aware there are people who want to enter and exit and please give way!
The student who sulks because he doesn’t get to sit next to the girl he likes. I mean grow up – If you have been sitting for a whole term next to each other and nothing has happened what are the chances it will? How will moving your seat affect this in anyway? If she likes you, she is not going to forget about you because you are two rows away. If she doesn’t like you, well then it doesn’t matter does it?
Students who make everything into a joke in class – The giggling fits really gets to me – its seriously jarring on the nerves. Once in a while is fine but to do it all the time?
Students who get affected by a video but try to act cool and as if nothing has fazed them. And then try to break the mood of the moment by cracking some stupid joke.
Students who think that a teacher should be free round the clock to attend to them. It’s bad enough that I have classes on Saturday morning ( the only time I have in the week to do household chores) and one asks why not continue till the afternoon.
Students who forget you the minute they have left the school building – who hound you in school for extra lessons and yet do not show any gratitude ( sometimes I really feel like I am treated as their slave)
People who criticize you when they themselves are not flawless. In fact they have committed bigger blunders than you and get away scot-free and then the small thing you have forgotten to do is taken up and made into a big deal.
I haven’t been updating as I have been really busy with the various things I have to do in school. I have been getting scoldings from mother and mother-in-law who think that I will soon have no life as I spend more time in school than I do at home. I haven’t seen my mother for more than a month. That seems really sad but I cannot – with being busy in school and being stressed – going to visit her means I have to be calm which I am not so it means more stress.
I feel really bad about spending time in school only with regards to my husband. He is ever so patient and never gets angry that I spend time in school and is there to be a listening ear when I talk about work . It’s good to have to someone that can listen to all my ranting. But it’s like I spend less than an hour with him every day. Even weekends is spent in school or marking. All I need is to take one night off to watch tv and have dinner out and my work piles up.
Today was speech day and met some of my students from last year. Was really great to catch up with them – Its really heartening to see that all of them so grown up in their blazers.
I sometimes wonder if it is worth it - the sacrifice of personal time, the love you share ( you know in some cases I treat them like my own children) - don't know.....
Students who stand in the door of the staff room and wait for teachers – I realize they are deprived of the air-con but hello have some common sense – be aware there are people who want to enter and exit and please give way!
The student who sulks because he doesn’t get to sit next to the girl he likes. I mean grow up – If you have been sitting for a whole term next to each other and nothing has happened what are the chances it will? How will moving your seat affect this in anyway? If she likes you, she is not going to forget about you because you are two rows away. If she doesn’t like you, well then it doesn’t matter does it?
Students who make everything into a joke in class – The giggling fits really gets to me – its seriously jarring on the nerves. Once in a while is fine but to do it all the time?
Students who get affected by a video but try to act cool and as if nothing has fazed them. And then try to break the mood of the moment by cracking some stupid joke.
Students who think that a teacher should be free round the clock to attend to them. It’s bad enough that I have classes on Saturday morning ( the only time I have in the week to do household chores) and one asks why not continue till the afternoon.
Students who forget you the minute they have left the school building – who hound you in school for extra lessons and yet do not show any gratitude ( sometimes I really feel like I am treated as their slave)
People who criticize you when they themselves are not flawless. In fact they have committed bigger blunders than you and get away scot-free and then the small thing you have forgotten to do is taken up and made into a big deal.
I haven’t been updating as I have been really busy with the various things I have to do in school. I have been getting scoldings from mother and mother-in-law who think that I will soon have no life as I spend more time in school than I do at home. I haven’t seen my mother for more than a month. That seems really sad but I cannot – with being busy in school and being stressed – going to visit her means I have to be calm which I am not so it means more stress.
I feel really bad about spending time in school only with regards to my husband. He is ever so patient and never gets angry that I spend time in school and is there to be a listening ear when I talk about work . It’s good to have to someone that can listen to all my ranting. But it’s like I spend less than an hour with him every day. Even weekends is spent in school or marking. All I need is to take one night off to watch tv and have dinner out and my work piles up.
Today was speech day and met some of my students from last year. Was really great to catch up with them – Its really heartening to see that all of them so grown up in their blazers.
I sometimes wonder if it is worth it - the sacrifice of personal time, the love you share ( you know in some cases I treat them like my own children) - don't know.....