[etni] Re: "betraying my calling as a teacher" etni Digest V5 #290
- From: "David Graniewitz" <graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <shilohmuse@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Etni'" <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 11:39:29 +0200
I happen to believe that being a teacher is more than just getting paid for
an 8-4 job. This doesn't take away from my professionalism, if anything it
enhances it as it makes me more responsible. If I considered it a regular
job, I'd have left teaching a long time ago. The fact that I do have an
ideological commitment to what I do helps me overcome all the difficulties
and hardships that I have had to endure (nasty pupils, unscrupulous
headmasters and the joke of a salary slip that I bring home each month.)
If I had a "normal" job, going on strike wouldn't bother me. "Normal"
employees harm their employers when they down tools by cutting into their
profits. (And "normal" unions have strike funds.) The difference is that
our employers don't care. The Jerusalem Municipality is rubbing its greedy
hands with glee because of the fact that it has to pay our less money this
month which will help its growing debt.
I agree that we deserve a lot more and not only in monetary terms, but I
can't avoid my guilt feelings.
David
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Subject: [etni] Re: "betraying my calling as a teacher" etni Digest V5 #290
re: "betraying my calling as a
teacher"
What's a "calling?"
You're getting foreign religious concepts mixed up with professionalism. We
teachers, even the females, aren't nuns or Buddhist priests.
We don't have to suffer to be good teachers.
We are trained, educated, academic professionals and we must demand and
expect, without embarrassment or apologies, suitable living wages.
If we don't demand respect, we won't get it!
Batya
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