treatment of life

Have you ever wondered what's the thing behind being a teacher's kid?

I know this is indeed a very random topic of discussion but, the fact is at times, I'm really grateful to have a teacher-mom, but at times, it's a very very painful fact. Many will say "Oh, your mom is a teacher, so, things are obviously easy for you..." or "Aiyah, you don't understand meh? Didn't your mom teach you before?" or when you DO understand a certain things by your own ability, "Your mom taught you?!"

Things like that really haunted my schooling days, especially you've got teachers who are close to your mom, or probably those she met in some courses somewhere and she told them she has daughters in MGS. The next time the teacher sees you, she'll ask about your mom, and behind you, I bet she's keeping an eye on all your behaviors etc. It is worse if your mom's friend becomes your subject teacher. (I'm really grateful not to have any of my mom's friends as my class teacher throughout my entire schooling life, or not, I think you can imagine it yourself) Well, my mom teaches Chemistry in her school and her friend was my Chemistry teacher, and currently my sister's as well. Frankly speaking, we do feel the pressure from both sides, mom at home and teacher in school. We can fail any subjects but, never science-related ones! *touches wood....*

The public always have this thinking that teachers are the best profession in the sense that they only need to work half a day, as in from 0730 to about 1400, which is quite short compared to corporate workers. Corporate people working in offices, bank, factories...they will be in their respective workplaces and when the clock strikes, they leave, but it's a total different thing for teachers! I don't know about other teachers but my mom never gets to leave school before 1430 daily, and mind you, that's the EARLIEST!! School ends at 1350 for her, and she has loads of activities in school, i.e extra classes for students who will be facing major exams, society meeting, staff meeting, and the list adds on. This is what she does IN school, which does not include the HUGE amount of paperwork, other tasks like bringing the students here and there for competitions...and trips! I've been fetching my mom to and from school these days, and at times, I've gotta wait for her for a certain period of time, a few times even past 4pm!

Imagine, she's in school from 7.05am till about 4pm! That's like 9+ hours being in school!

Sometimes even our holidays have to give way to her extra classes for those exam-bound students! Or the trips she organized to expose them to the world outside.

Many students out there are complaining their heads off about their teachers making them do this and that, but do you ever realize that the only thing they want from you is for you to be a successful person, nothing much. And if the school does not perform well in a certain subject, who will get the blame?! No one else, besides teachers.

To my mom's students out there, do appreciate a teacher like this, for I think this species is facing extinction pretty soon. Even I didn't get teachers like this in those 11 years I spent in school.