Continuing the discussion from yesterday, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
There was a distant school up in the mountains, the principal there on the meetings, always mentioned how the substitute teachers would all get sent to other schools, and the instructors sent to his school, were those who knew how to make the grades, but, they’d had difficulties in classroom management and teaching. Like the drafted up legislations that the instructors who were approved needed to stay six years, and in the midst of these, there would be, unfitting instructors like this, and, this would have an even more adverse effect on the schools in the distant regions.
The schools in the distant regions are mostly smaller scaled, and, there’s just one instructor per subject. And, if the instructor isn’t trained enough to teach the classes, or lead the classes, it wouldn’t necessarily mean, that they were, unfitting to teach, but has to do more with the way the school runs, the communities, and how much support they receive from the parents, and the methods of teaching wasn’t correct; for instance, if a middle school only has one English instructor, and because s/he didn’t teach well enough, then, the entire school’s level of English crashes, and with that, comes the loss of interest in learning the subject.
The bureaucrats sat in an air-conditioned room, and all they thought about, revolved around how to make the teachers stay longer in the distant region schools, but they have no handle on the reality: the problem lies in the continuation of the lacking in the systems. An instructor who holds the passions for teaching, who only taught for a year in the distant schools, the changes s/he helps instill in the students, is usually far deeper, compared to instructors who’d been teaching in the distant regions longer.
If I lived in the distant hills, and the instructors of the academic subjects aren’t teaching well enough, I suppose, I’d, wanted my children to get transferred out. And, if the unfitting instructors will be tied by contract for six years, maybe, in shorter a time, all the students would be, lost.
Don’t the government officials want to visit the regions themselves? The needs and the problems of these distant schools, is it caused, solely by the lacking of instructors, needing the instructors to stay on longer to teach, or, because of how ill-fitted the instructors are in their teaching posts, if it’s the latter, then, what policies can the government come up with, to help better the situations?
This article “mapped out” the problems of the system that this current government posed, they’re, looking for the instructors, to get into the distant region schools, and, the schools are basically, just grabbing at straws here, whoever that came to interview for the teaching posts, will probably get it (of course, I’m thinking, that the individuals must go through your regular criminal background checks, etc., etc., etc.), and what if, after starting to teach in these distant region schools, the instructor realized, that the place was awful (lacking the resources, boring weekends, etc., etc., etc.), and just walked out? What happens to the students, AND their rights to get educated then, huh???