[etni] Re: working in more than 1 school
- From: David Graniewitz <graniewitz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wolfson@xxxxxxx, etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 10:05:49 +0300 (IDT)
If you had read my original post properly, you would have
seen that I was expecting to receive a response such as
yours.
I know that this is not a "male problem" and that there are
many women (especially single mothers) in the same
predicament I merely mentioned that in my experience, it
affects most men who are teachers. I can't think offhand of
any male teachers I have come across who were prepared to
make do with 12 hours a week in one school. That doesn't
mean to say that there aren't any of course.
What was trying to do was to bring to people's attention a
problem that is never addressed as we seem to take for
granted a situation which turns teachers into migrant
workers, travelling from school to school to make a living.
we shouldn't be treated this way. That's all. It isn't a
male-female thing. The problem lies not only with the amount
we get paid but in the whole organisation of the system.
David Graniewitz
In response to David's posting I wish to point out that it
isn't only men teachers who work in more than one school. I
myself worked in 3 jobs last year. I know many young women
teachers as well as older women who work in 2 schools as
well as for non-school programmes teaching English - not
private lessons. Many of us also take summer vacation
teaching jobs, not to pass the time I assure you!
For some of them the problem is that their principals don't
want to give full time hours to one teacher. While for
others it's because their school does not have enough hours
to make them up to a misra. Then of course there are those
who take more hours in order to earn more because as a
family they just don't earn enough to make ends meet.
So please don't make it a male-female issue.
Teachers don't get paid enough!
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