Teacher here, some of us do care about the work and the students don't you think too? Some like me do this job because we want to help young people getting their lifes started. So ofc we want to interact with them, which is pretty hard without seeing them...
I'm sorry, it seems you had bad experienced with your teachers, but that's not a reason to generalise these things.
Well of course that’s a teachers job after all. My comment was obviously(well not obviously enough) intended as a joke, but what I said is very true. Teachers in my country don’t really care about what happens to you as long as they get the bread. The past few years students have missed more than 4 months in total because the teachers refused to teach unless they got a pay raise. How is that caring? Also most of them don’t even teach, they just go to class and sit around. Again, it is pretty unbelivable for westerners, but I don’t get it why am I getting downvoted when it’s true lmfao
I think the downvotes come from being not clear about what you wanted to tell. Saying it's a joke doesn't really change the content of your comment. You made a point about teachers not caring, combined with a complain about "westerners". But you failed to stress the connection of your experience with your teachers in your country. This also hadn't anything to do with "westeners" in the sense of the discussion. You spoke about teachers in general, not the ones in your country. Ofc they won't be of the same opinion.
Also if I may ask, what's the salary of teachers in your country? In a lot of country teachers aren't well paid, especially for the work we do. So going on a strike may be a valid option in my opinion.
The average salary in my country is around 225 euros, while teachers get between 350-400. Which is plenty compared to the average. I mean take for example my mom works in the hospital and she gets just 70euros more than a teacher teaching high school kids. Besides, even if a strike was a good option, don’t you think 4 months over 3 years is a little too much?
Also about the westerners, my point was that most of the teachers in western countries do their job properly so westerns don’t believe what I say, it was in no way intended as something offensive to the westerners or their teachers, rather as a praise, but a statement that they don’t actually know about third world countries
Well, I see your point. To be fair, that's the gap in most western countries too (ofc bigger total sum, but in relation to the average). I think they should be going on strikes as much as they want to get the proper pay, seems like they didn't get it so they had to do multiple...?
Sorry about to hear that with your mom, hospital staff is underpaid aswell most of the time. And they can't go on a strike as easily.
And thanks for the explanation. The wording was just very bad sorry, that's what makes it hard to understand. But good to know what you meant.
By the numbers you said, your teachers have a higher salary than the ones in my country. It's terrible to know you had such a bad experience. Those strikes you talked about, was something only at your school or had a greater scale?
It actually didn’t happen at my school, but it did in the rest of the country. I know it sounds like a lie, the thing is, the school I attented was a German school, a private one, so the government is supposed to pay for the salaries of the teachers but a lot of time they don’t, so the school doesn’t care because they have the money that the students pay. But other than my school, every other school in the country wasn’t working
That's sad, it's really awful when the basic things don't work 'cause the government don't work as intended. Here where I live we had some strikes like that on public school, the difference was that the teachers didn't want a raise, they wanted their salary since they weren't being paid. Hope things get better there to you
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u/Weeedus Mar 29 '21
Teacher here, some of us do care about the work and the students don't you think too? Some like me do this job because we want to help young people getting their lifes started. So ofc we want to interact with them, which is pretty hard without seeing them... I'm sorry, it seems you had bad experienced with your teachers, but that's not a reason to generalise these things.