Saya nak jadi cikgu!

“Apa cita-cita awak bila dah besar nanti?”
“Saya nak jadi cikgu!”Being a teacher is a divine job. “Yeah right” that’s what Papa Ed replied, cynically when we told him about that statement.
At least, for decades people had been saying it. Yes, it is true. Let’s have a look at the plus point that a teacher gets.

Lots of holidays because of school holidays, less working hours, have their own ‘day’; which is Teacher’s Day (Gosh! which job have their own special day, get lots of presents and have to entertain the students! Not even the secretary!)…. Hmmm… what else…

Other than what I’ve mentioned earlier, teacher also suffers a lot. Being a teacher means that you have to work with human being- kids, teenagers, and also their parents. It is not that other job does not deal with human-I do not mean that. But just imagine, the students spend most of their time at school, and a teacher has to enter at least three classes a day with minimum number of students in a class is 25. How they are going to handle it? Some more, they have to confront with dissatisfied, angered, pissed off parents? And teachers at school actually are burdened with administration job? You don’t believe me?

Let see…
Sports Day, Canteen Day, Open Day…. and numerous numbers of days that they have to handle other than ordinary day. These days ‘forced’ them to work more. Just compare it to a lecturer. If the faculty wants to carry out a talk-let say, they have the non-academic staff to handle it. Plus, if you are the Head of Unit or Head of Department, you will have an assistant. Whom teachers have? That’s why, sometimes the students have to help out the teachers in doing all these thing. Do not blame teachers. They are just like any other human being.

Being a teacher also requires them to work 25 hours a day. Why? Before they enter a class, of course they have to prepare a lesson plan. Which is very, very important, especially for teacher trainee and new teacher. And the lesson plan need to be prepared a day before the actual lesson. Got it?

If being a teacher is a divine job, then why most of the people who ‘occupied’ Hospital Permai at Tampoi and Hospital Bahagia at Tanjung Rambutan are teachers?

Think about it…