Pissed... I shall strive harder!

"Why is that not marked? Look at Mr *** 's file... Erm... Not marked either... Never mind.. Why is there so little homework? Look at this!"

"As a young, male teacher, you should not have so many days of MC... Let me check... Hhmmm... Only 2... Never mind... My point is..."

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Sigh... And so it went at my 2nd review of files today. Sigh, guess I was wrong to give so little homework to them.

Never mind the fact that they outscore the next class, who did so much more...

Never mind that they retain their positive attitude towards learning, which is not crushed out of them by mind numbing workloads...

Never mind that Mr Lee had recommended that teachers should promote a programme of "Teach Less, Learn More"... Or as my colleague had remarked in grim humour, Teach less, not do less... Haha...

Oh well... Thou shall do thy best... And bury them alive with work...

Friends

It has been quite a while since my last post...

I have been getting used to workdays lasting 12 - 14 hours... Getting by on 4 and a half hours of sleep night after night.

It used to be that I can look forward to having a nice dinner with friends after work, or retain an active social life... Now?? Haha...

I guess it is not easy for all of us fellow voyagers in this line. Teaching should never be easy... Or we would be getting all kinds of Toms, Dicks and Harrys... Or would we?

Anyway, I shall carry on striving... And find my simple pleasures while I may...

Argh! Back to the mountain of paperwork!!!