During the exams we fetched two boys at home because they thought their papers were in the afternoon 🙃 I will always go above and beyond for learners… I’ve been a teacher since 2017 😌
When my car was written off in October last year, I had two cars waiting for me outside my gate to take me to work 🤣 when I wasn’t paid for 5 months, a friend gave me R10k and another gave me R20k and told me to return R10k only… I don’t know but my friends carry me… always ❤️
Because the kids who mostly need that attention are the ones who are disruptive and they never want to learn. The smart kids on the other hand listen. When you organize extra classes, the smart ones will come but those who actually need help are nowhere to be found.
I’ve taught at an Independent School, I’ve taught at a former Model C school and now I am a teacher in Township school. In the first two schools, it was easy to call the parents and they would attend to you.(Some were mean)
I came back to this because I just got marksheets and this said child obtained 66% in her exams… from a 41% in term 2…. And yes I called her parents 😌 nna ga re bolele fela Palesa re a ruta!!!
My question is why would you go to her house ? Is that even allowed ? Were her parents aware that you, a male adult, would be going to a young lady’s house to collect the said assignment ?🙂
Teachers are unemployed yet we have a shortage
Doctors are unemployed yet we have a shortage
Nurses are not doing their comm service but
Youth Unemployment
Schools are a mess
Hospitals are a mess
Communities are a mess
Loadshedding
Watershedding
Retrenchments
Crime
Corruption
Now in a township school, you deal with a lot, drugs, alcohol, gangs, child-headed homes, high rate of teenage pregnancy and poverty! Now you operate at a different dimension and high levels of maturity and grace. It’s not a walk in the park…
Policy makers never take township schools into consideration. But we make it work! Despite all the obstacles we face but we make it work and shape the future of a black child, lack of parental support and resources and we are judged like the rest.
In short re imetšwe and it’s a lot. So much will never be documented by teachers… I don’t have the words to articulate all this but just know gore ga go monate! End
We are overwhelmed and overworked but we have to make it work for as long as we are there, it’s not that Township teachers don’t care, they do. But the love is slowly killed by external factors. We do love being teachers, we want to teach, we want to impact!