Hard-working vs Lazy Teachers

People in Mauritius have recently grown jealous of the dream job of many, school teacher, or educator as they are called now (for college), long paying holidays, short working hours… Little do they know the hard work that many of them put in doing their duty. It is like labour work, except that nobody says they ‘only’ work from 5 to 11 am or so. That’s because their work is physically demanding. Education on the other hand, is mentally demanding, and as exhausting as your private 9 to 6 pm job…

However, there are some teachers who abuse of their positions, to enjoy themselves, make money on tuitions – thus making a bad name for themselves. There are a few examples of those, like Mr X who threatens his students to take tuition with him, or else he will give them bad marks. Poor students do not know what to do, and many indeed do pay for tuition, while attending other teachers tuition – that’s because Mr B. is a very bad teacher according to what those students tell me (compared to other teachers). I won’t mention the full name (I would if I had the video testimonials of those students), but hey, you would have guessed that it’s among one of the colleges in the region… I wonder why such a disgrace is still in the education system, would he have support from other people? Don’t any of his colleagues report him? What about parents, don’t their children tell about this teacher? It’s Cambridge who’ll give your ultimate marks, not that disgrace.

Heard about another teacher who squeezes the maximum number of students in his tuition classes for exorbitant tuition fees (for rural areas that is… anyway, fees in towns have always been higher)… Say, he has been a good teacher years ago. But does he really get time to really help each student with a few batches of 40 per day? If yes, he’s a hero, sinon…

Well, I do offer some lectures part-time an a tertiary institutions, and have many teachers friends from state secondary schools. It is a minority of lazy teachers who do bad, and the rest have to bear the bad word of mouth from parents around the region…

Rest assured that there are many good teachers in the region as well, and that’s a relief to hear. I know friends from from the North and central plateau who used to come to Lallmatie, Bon Accueil, Brisée Verdière for tuition (hey I didn’t say it’s a bad thing). These teachers make us proud and really help the students

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