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Cried by a teacher's reason for leaving, she's fit to be a teacher

Cried by a teacher's reason for leaving

By Vallez BeadnellPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
Cried by a teacher's reason for leaving, she's fit to be a teacher
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Teacher: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Students: "I want to be a policeman when I grow up," "I want to be a scientist when I grow up," "I want to be a teacher like you."

The dreams of the students represent what they thought was best for them in those years and their little minds.

The dreams of childhood are lost as you grow up and grow out. Or you find out that it is not what you thought it would be, and when the time comes do you choose to doubt yourself, o do you go about your dreams differently?

A girl who had been inspired to be a teacher since she was a child left her job, in Henan, and gave up her preparation to return home. Surrounded by people who do not understand, but see the reason for leaving the moment, suddenly there is no way to evaluate.

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A teacher's reason for leaving the job is to see the tears, she is suitable for a teacher but too suitable for a teacher

The teacher's name is Little, now an ordinary girl from rural Henan. The family did not even agree when she resigned. For areas such as Henan and Shandong, the teacher establishment is more recognized than in other provinces.

Especially in Henan, a province with a large number of entrance exams, it is not easy to walk out, there are just too many students. It takes great courage to give up the establishment, not to mention the teacher, which is a small dream from childhood to childhood.

Before she resigned, she went up to the rooftop by herself at night. She looked at the sky and re-examined her dream, looking at the teaching profession she was familiar with, and her childhood dream, which was constantly colliding.

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I think of the happy look on my teacher's face when I first told her as a child that the novel wanted to be like her teacher and become a teacher.

I think of Han Y's words: "A teacher is a person who preaches and teaches and solves problems. It was probably then that I figured out that perhaps a teacher is not just a three-foot teaching desk, but can be broader, and that it is myself who has limited the scope of a teacher.

I didn't like the fact that there were only three old poems in the language book, that classes were divided according to grades, that students were judged by their grades, and that there were endless meetings that had nothing to do with education.

But these are the norm in our education, and teachers are distracted by a lot of energy, as well as going to help the poor and elderly, volunteering, and so on. It is also normal to divide students into classes to achieve a big boost in school performance.

The life of a teacher, as Little likes to call it, is too idealistic. So even though I liked the smell of chalk dust in the air, the buzz of getting together with students, the feeling of writing lesson plans, and the three-foot teaching desk, I ended up quitting.

The collision of dreams and reality is often not pretty

When I watched Tiny tell her reasons for quitting, I didn't know what to say, even though I was always so eloquent. It wasn't because of the salary, it wasn't because of the hard work between parents and school, but because it was against her dreams.

The only thing I can conclude is that a small person should not be too old to accept that there is a lot of hopelessness and meticulousness in society that is different from what she idealizes.

When we were young, we had a lot of ideas, we saw things as black and white, and we thought that everything had its own rules and regulations, its own rules and regulations. But life will show us that the middle ground is the norm.

Teachers are part of a social workforce, and many employees in the establishment and the system, most of whom are required to take on responsibilities that may not themselves fall within their remit.

I remember a video from the year of the Wuhan outbreak, soliciting doctors from the hospital to go to Wuhan; other doctors could choose to go or not. But out stood a group of people who had to go, and they were party members.

Little was well suited to be a teacher, but perhaps too well suited to be a teacher. Xian is very fraternal, she loves every child and can't bear to give up on any of them, but she can't bear the psychological and practical fallout herself.

It's like being a newcomer to society and seeing everything as idealistic. Perhaps time will change this perception, and I hope that Tiny will be the warrior who breaks through our preconceived ideas for us.

She is being a teacher of life again, in her ideal way. Preaching and teaches, using her life wisdom to help more people.

Author's message.

Little is just one representative of the vast number of teacher positions and does not rule out other teachers who think the same way but have not made a move. This matter how to say it, about education, different teachers, different schools, and different parents, have different ideas.

When it is not acceptable, leaving is certainly one way to go. But being in the middle of it is the only way to change. When it hurts to be treated differently when a student is underachieving, only a teacher can go and help, leaving is just a way to watch.

So I hope that our schools will take on board more of the teaching ideas of grassroots teachers. Grassroots teachers can also be a little more perceptive. Often leaving with style doesn't mean you've won.

The world is so big that we may not even be able to inspire a single splash. But with their love and patience, teachers can just water a flower that blooms in the sun, a rose, a peony, a peony, an aloe, and a cactus.

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Vallez Beadnell

After this last cigarette, I'll do as you say and live well from now on

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