ugly truth

 few years back, my dad's friend asked me:

( watak direfer sebagai Rasyid, bukan nama sebenar)

pak cik Rasyid: belajar kat mana sekarang?

Fareha: belajar dekat *********.

pak cik Rasyid: hah, belajar kt *****!!!! . nanti awak jadi cikgu JE la kan? dulu awak sekolah mana?

( at that time i wans't study abroad yet)

Fareha: saya sekolah kat MRSM Kuantan.

pak cik Rasyid: eh, sekolah elok tu. awak dapat SPM berapa?

Fareha: ******

pak cik Rasyid: keputusan awak bagus. boleh masuk U tu kan. kenapa nak jadi cikgu JE?

this is what we called typical minded. i don't blame him to have that kind of thought. i used to have this kind of thought too. in a way, people thought that teachers are those who do not really excel in their studies. setuju? this is epic people. i even have frinds who got straight 11As in SPM, yet decided to do teaching.

most people think that being a teacher is easy. kerja separuh hari kan? do you know that, that's only at school. preparing the lesson and materials is a different thing. post lesson is a huge another thing. before you get into the classroom you have to prepare. in the classroom you need to deliver and after the class, you have to check pupils' work. besides, teachers have to do secretary work too. i was suprised when i first got to school that teachers have to do most of the thing. because i'm a tertiary education student, we are used to do all the thing on our own, and when i see that teachers have to do most of the things to pupils, it was a shocking really. because pupils cant do anything WITHOUT a teacher. 

i agree with one of my friends suggestion that, there must a reality TV show that penetrates teacher's life. it's not easy. based on the statistics, teacher is the 4th most stressful job in Malaysia ( based on  research  PPKUM and casted by Forum Perdana Hal Ehwal Islam). teachers are dealing with people emotions people who want to go against the system, people who are not satisfied with the service and all sort.

 hasil kaji selidik Jabatan Kesihantan Masyarakat Pusat Perubatan Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (PPUKM) 2007 hingga 2008.

                                

if you assume teaching is easy, you are wrong. you are dealing with human beings, who have feelings and hearts. if engineers create and build most sophisticated building, we build our future generetion.  

thank you for reading!