A demanding career

Beside teaching colleges being blamed for the inadequacy of the education system, at a lower level it is surely clear to all that the teaching profession must be one of the most demanding job. On the one hand it seems that teachers are widely recognised as perhaps the most important role models tochildren and young adults (why else would any crimes or offensess committed by teachers be considered a scandalous incident?), yet teachers are hardly rewarded well enough for their difficulties.

Having to juggle administrative work, marking and setting assignments, planning lessons, providing counselling services, being virtuous role models, they face bureaucratic barriers in trying to solve problems differently, blame from parents for not doing the duties that the parents themselves neglected, and disrespect and apathy from students too young to know what's good for themselves. The pay hardly compensate well enough for such trauma, but for the promise of being remembered by some of the students in their future for teaching them some indelible lessons that will stay with them, I must resolve to try my best in this career.