More Food Adventures: The Right Career? Have a Belgian Bite!

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We have just visited Cadayunan Primary School, and we are going back there for more help and gifts we can give, with the support of all our sponsors. Tough job being a teacher in the hinterlands. The school have just opened last July and they are not equipped with the necessary materials as well as a decent classroom. But I swear, the teachers have done quite well with the make shift classroom. I commend their skills and talents for that. Now I wonder why not all applicants for a teaching career are good enough for the job. Some prove themselves to have chosen the profession as their last recourse to find means to survive. Which is quite sad because I see lots of teachers, especially in the public schools, who lack compassion for their students. Some even use their students for more income, like selling snacks and food stuff inside the classroom, and the students are the prime consumers who buy for fear of a low grade. Perhaps in some schools it does not happen, but I know a school where this is rampant. And the more I fee sad about it. Surely, choosing a career is choosing one's vocation. I do believe that one's job is his calling and he or she can only perform well in it if he or she has the passion to excel on the job, and compassion for the job's direct client, in a teacher's case, the students.

Anyway, I am so reminded of my experience in a previous place of work where I was the GCPO, or the Guidance, Career Placement and Promotions Officer of this said school. I think it was quite a miracle that I have loved the job as much as the people I come across with. Perhaps it's because I had really supportive direct bosses, the school director and of course, the VP for Marketing. They believed in me and my ideas, so I loved doing more for the school. When we conducted a survey among our students as well as the graduating students of the schools we visited for Career Orientation, my work was made simplier as the data helped us a lot in our marketing plans to get more students to enroll. Of course, being the guidance counselor at the same time, I had to hit two points, that the students are also guided as to the right career choice parallel to their skills, talents, abilities and inclinations aside from an added number to the enrollee's list. I am sure that if there was ever a Survey Software available at that time, it would have gone faster than how it went. We wanted to develop an Online Survey where students can just visit our website and participate in the survey, but some schools, especially in the far flung areas, do not even have electricity. So if one becomes a teacher there, he or she must have initiative to cater to the needs of the time and location. But then again, as I mentioned earlier, some teachers just go after their salaries without ever trying to help the situation before their very eyes.

My sentiment is that, the educational system should be geared towards building a more educated country by having talented, multi-skilled teachers who are willing to go the extra mile to foster a good educational environment. I am sure the worst teachers in the country never really liked education to begin with, but feel they have no choice but to embrace their bread and butter for the time being. When and if they are given the chance, they will move away for greener pastures and a brighter future for them. I guess, before a teacher is even accepted as an applicant, a survey must first be done in order to know if the applicant will be good or bad at the job. Surveys open windows somehow, and looking through said windows will let administrators know the possibilities. Unless the administrator is downright naive of the needs of the school and its studentry..

Thinking about these things frustrate me all the more, whew! I better have a Belgian Bite instead..