Yeah, but the teachers have two months of vacation in them!

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Marjorie Champagne

Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:00

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Thursday, 1 February 2018 17:00

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In November 2003, I went to the chiropractor every week to make me ramancher the skeleton under diagnosis, “madam, your structure is inconsistent”. I had been in this clinic due to discomfort in the left arm that extended from the nape of the neck to the tips of the fingers.

Like a numbness, a weight, a clenching.

A little earlier this year, I successfully completed a bachelor’s degree in arts education. My classes were inspiring to the bottom, both in art and teaching. In addition, I had the chance to speak of theories of learning to my two parents, two teachers are passionate.

In August, I get my first contract. It is deployed in three primary schools in the region. With each cycle, I meet with approximately 200 students of different levels. I seriously think I’m going to make a difference, but after a few weeks, I déchante…

I realize quickly that my main task boils down to discipline and organize the material, which is basically, to do housework.

Silence!

Over a period of 60 minutes, with the little first-year, I calculate teach for an average of 35 minutes, especially in the winter! The rest of the time is to help young people to remove their garments of snow, to make sure that everything is done in silence, to repeat that all this must be done in silence, to re-repeat that it is necessary to keep the silence and to make the trip between my room and their class.

Each course, each time, round-trip.

Between courses, I cut the cardboard. I cut so much cardboard! I can not imagine what it is like to have a task full. For a specialist to the primary, full-time may correspond to about 26 groups of different pupils, which may total up to 650 different pupils.

It’s made of cardboard! And I’m not talking about filling buckets of paint… do you remove the taste to make it quickly enough.

Once the day is done, I dig the head to find strategies of classroom management to calm down the groups of the sixth grade with which I make at least 60 000 disciplinary action by the course. I anguish at the bottom.

I have the impression of being a police.

After only a few months, I am completely disillusioned. I am stressed to death, psychologically weakened, and I start to feel a pain in my left arm, like a numbness, a weight, a clenching.

A journalist of the Newspaper has lived through such an experience lately by improvising a substitute. In her video, she demonstrates wish to put an end to his experience after two weeks of work. I don’t have a hard time to believe it.

It is incredible what can endure the teacher…. year long!

Ben no, it’s true, I forgot: the teachers have two months of vacation!!!! They don’t come and complain! They also have lots of educational days where they do nothing! Here’s what two of my contacts on Facebook have to say about it:

Screen Capture of Facebook

In regards to my small personal story, you may have noticed, I am redirected to the communications. Today, I have two weeks of vacation per year and I prefer it that way. The discomfort in the arm is gone the same day I left teaching and never returned.

*** The week of the teachers ‘ took place from February 4 to 10 on the theme “Your education, our success at all!” and it’s about time that ALL concerned with the promotion of this profession which is unfairly under-estimated.