I wouldn’t like to be a teacher
by Brett Korn.
I wouldn’t like
to be a teacher because of some of the choices you have to make at times.
For example; if a teacher was to hold down a student who was determined
to bash another student, what would be the right thing to do, hold down
the student or let him go?
My point is that if the teacher held the student, they might try to sue
the teacher for holding him/her or if they didn’t hold him/her. If
the student inflicted much pain on the other student, the victim or the
victim’s parents might sue the school or teacher for not holding the
attacker down.
Another reason why I wouldn’t want to be a teacher is because the
job doesn’t end when the bell goes. A teacher has to go home and organise
lessons and mark work, and sometimes they don’t even get a lunch break,
because if they have to keep students in technically they are keeping themselves
in. They also have yard duty and that is usually chasing up students to
pick up rubbish.
These days teaching is getting harder and harder, because 20 years ago
a teacher could just cane a student there and then, these days they have
to go through the steps of telling them off and sending them to time out.
There’s also a teacher shortage, because not many young people want
go on and become teachers. The only way the government can get people to
become teachers is to put a big pay packet up.
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