Teachers, Do Teach, for the Sake of Education, Until You’re, Sixty-Five

From the Front Page Sections, translated…

From before, the teachers can teach until age sixty-five, the retirement age, and so, inside the campuses, the students can have the encounters with the older generations, the middle generations, as well as the younger generations, making the small family dynamics from the experiences of attending school.

I still recalled that when I first started teaching, a lot of the things were all new to me, gladly, the senior teachers were all, more than willing to, help our generation out, to encourage us to take on the challenges, and would give us applause, for a job well done too.

The way that the school was set up to work, is very nice too, they’d treated the elderly instructors with more respect, gave them office positions, had them act as a leader of a department, or assign them to teach specific subjects; the homeroom instructors’ roles were assigned to the experienced teachers, to teach in the higher grade levels, and, those instructors who were full of compassions, were given the lower grade levels to teach. With this sort of an arrangement and considerations, almost no one wanted to retire early.

But now, the atmosphere is completely different, the instructors all have their strong wills, and a low level of obedience, it would be, difficult, to exert any sort of an influence, causing the executive functions, the office jobs, to not get taken up.

Had it not been because of this, as we passed age fifty, our body, our experiences, our interpersonal relationships had, peaked, and the kids at home are all older too, we can completely, focus our minds on work, and if we exited out of the workforce now, it would be, such a loss for the field of education, and people in Taiwan are living longer and longer, there’s no reason, for early retirement, and having that huge retirement pension pay to you; if the legislature set up its mind on changing, I’m all for setting the age of retirement to sixty-five, to help, save those personnel.

So, this, is the problem, if everybody retires at age sixty-five, and, you didn’t set up the passing of the batons well enough, then, the entire system will CRASH down hard, and, maybe, the older instructors can become part-time instructors, instead of full-time employees of government, and, instead of having these older teachers work as homeroom teachers, like the article stated, they can teach the singular subjects…