it's teacher's day today on the wee islet.
when i received pressies on this day from my student's back in 1990 as a relief [or substitute as known in the US] teacher, i erm, blushed.
who would have thunk eh, le letre b blushes easily.
where was i? oh yes, a memorable stint, i must say. so much so that i'd considered takin up teachin as a full-time vocation. if not for my perceived lack of qualifications back then.
ie: to qualify as a full-timer, one has got to be a graduate before entering the teacher's training college [it was exactly called that many yonk's ago]. but those with minimum 3 'o' levels [now it's 5 'O's], without any teaching background were accepted as relief teacher's.
i didn't think it'd be worth my time going through 'a' levels as a private candidate, and then university. given that i was a computer course instructor/programmer prior to the school stint. so with great reluctance i left the school - and vocation - when my contract expired six month's later.
in fact my ex-classmate's expressed horror disbelief ["yer jokin, right?"] when i told them i was a teacher. how come? i was a teacher's nightmare. and till this day nobody knows that i damaged a form teacher's car. whilst in secondary two [14-year-old's]. apart from other, erm, misdemeanour's.
:x
but it sure is a bairnhood ambition fulfilled. kinda.
as enscribed by the letter b @ September 1, 2005 05:04 PM | someone's pingedit's one of the least appreciated job's which parent's don't help matters by tellin their brats that their teachers are no different from their own filipino/indonesian/sri lankan domestic helpers.
that's the beginnin of the downfall of the wee islet.
as blahed by the letter b @ September 2, 2005 04:59 PMI think what teachers have to go through everyday trying to teach the little cherubs, they should be receiving gold bars for presents on "teachers day."
as blahed by "Alice" @ September 2, 2005 09:20 AM