Teacher

People tend to assume that teacher's job is easy and highly paid. Somemore, teacher has so many holidays. I used to be one of them. Try to teach and give your judgment after that. Being teachers nowadays is more challenging than last time, you have to learn to control the class first before you can even teach a sentence. The students are really spoilt by the education system and I wonder how the so-called leaders can lead the nation one day.

The teaching profession is worsening the teacher's health, adding the mental stress, creating nightmares... no wonder some of the teachers faster opt to retire early.

The following excerpt is taken from the Borneo Post dated 5th July, 2008

More teachers suffering critical illness

KUALA LUMPUR: The increasing workload and work-related stress among teachers have taken a toll on the once ‘noble profession’, with more teachers facing the risk of incurring critical health problems.

In sounding the alarm yesterday, National Union of Teaching Profes-sion (NUTP) secretary-general Lok Yim Pheng said more teachers were now suffering stress and ran a high risk of getting cancer, heart attacks and high blood pressure.

She said the worrying trend was reflected in the insurance claims made by the teachers, especially in the past five years.

“It’s a occupational hazard for the teachers. We have made a random survey and there was a reported increase in the critical illness and it’s worrying,” she told a news conference here yesterday.

She said that from January to June this year alone, 38 critical illness cases were reported involving a total claim paid of about RM2.1 million.

The NUTP record showed that in 2004, there were 79 cases of critical cases reported, 2005 (100 cases), 2006 (106 cases) and 2007 (125).

How nice if the education system is carried online... just joking about that. Haha