赛翁失马

我是个叛逆的老师.

我教书以个人原则及学生福利为首.

我对学校的方针政策,从不重视,也不加理会.

教书对我来说是一个非常个人的艺术.

教育的成功度是无法衡量的.

The MOE work review form appraises the level of competency of various intangible qualities. E.g. Nurturing the whole child, the possible levels are "not observed", "developing", "competent" and "exceeding". To me, these are bullshit.

Even my current principal was unable to prevent a student from dropping out of school despite multiple counselling sessions and close monitoring. Perhaps she should be graded "not observed" then.

In the end, I doesn't matter if I believe in the system or not. I am in the system. Hence, being a non-believer and non-conformist, I've been told I'm placed a D grade for this year, which essentially means no performance bonus for next year and if I manage to clinch consecutively another two D grades subsequently, I may be ask to leave the service.

And just last two weeks, my principal approached me and asked if I was interested to work as a Normal Techinical specialist next year. what a joke.

I wasn't really pissed about it, I think I somehow saw it coming. My colleagues said every year some of the teachers must get a D grade, it's a quota thing. So I joked with them that now that mine is confirmed, they'd be spared of the ordeal.

BUT, you know how things can turn around so quickly....