Seeing teachers as human being who deserve respect would help a great deal to allow more teachers to do what they truly love
About 10 years ago, a friend declared that he could never be a teacher because he could never work in a job where every day was the same. I may have looked at him as if he had suddenly sprouted a small ancillary head from his shoulder. No two days are remotely the same in teaching because you are dealing with human beings, who are infinitely complex and various.
Everyone has an opinion on teachers because everyone, bar a small minority of home-educated people, has been to school. Almost everyone has had a bad experience with a teacher at some stage. Due to the attentional bias towards negative memories that is part of the human condition, it is unsurprising that the good and even great teachers do not linger in our memories as long as the ones who made us feel,, like a useless lump of dung.
There was a brief, shimmering moment at the beginning of the pandemic when people suddenly started to appreciate teachers when the horror of teaching their own children became a necessity. Alas, that is now a faded cultural memory and people have reverted to moaning about the long summer holidays teachers enjoy.
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