VietNamNet Bridge – Working under hard pressure and earning
little money are the main reasons that make a half of Vietnamese teachers feel
regret that they chose to become teachers.
The report by the Education Science
Research Institute has released a report which has stirred up the public,
saying that 50 percent of Vietnamese teachers wish they have not chosen to work
as teachers.
Dr Vu Trong Ry from the institute
said he posed the same question to general school teachers: Will you choose to
work as a teacher once again, if you are allowed to make decision again?
40.9 percent of primary school
teachers said “no.” Meanwhile, the figures were 59 percent for secondary school
teachers and 52.4 percent for high school teachers.
Half of Vietnamese teachers have
become fed up with the teaching job because of the low income. The job cannot
feed teachers themselves and their families. Since teachers cannot live on
their main career, they have to take extra jobs, from giving private tutoring
lessons, working on rice field, trading or asking for the support from
relatives.
Ry has warned that once teachers
feel tired of the teaching job, they would not have the driving force to
continue teaching. They would just try to fulfill their responsibility, while
they do not love the career.
The information has caused
pessimistic to many people. In principle, the quality of the education system
would never exceed the qualification of the teaching staff. This means that
with the problems in the teaching staff, Vietnam would not have a high quality
education.
Meanwhile, a low quality
education system would not produce good students. The modern material
facilities, good textbooks and curriculums would not help create a high quality
education if there are problems with the teaching staff.
Ry believes that teachers
nowadays are the aiming points of the most violent criticisms than ever.
People believe that teaching is
an easy job, therefore, teachers should not complain about the low pay,
especially when they cannot fulfill the responsibilities assigned to them.
However, Ry has affirmed that
teaching is a hard work. A survey, conducted recently on 526 general school
teachers from 27 schools in five provinces, showed the terribly high number of
working hours of teachers.
Primary school teachers have the
actual working hours higher by 50 percent than the number of working hours
stipulated by the State (40 hours a week). Meanwhile, the figures are 1.7 times
and 1.8 times for secondary and high school teachers.
Ry said the figures can clearly
show how hard teachers work. Besides, they have to work under the hard pressure
from parents, education management officers and the society. It seems that
every bad thing has been blamed on educators.
Meanwhile, a pedagogical school
graduate can only earn 2 million dong a month, which is just enough for food
for half a month. The monthly income of young teachers, who have just finished
universities, proves to be not enough for fuel to run motorbike to school, mobile
phones or parties with friends. Meanwhile, many of them have been relying on
parents.
The hard work and low pay have
led to many teachers suffering from serious diseases, while the modest income
for teachers is not enough for them to treat diseases.
However, the biggest problem is
that once teachers do not love their career and do not devote themselves to the
teaching, they would not be able to produce good students and useful citizens
for the country.
Source: Kien Thuc
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