I'm happy with my work, so leave me alone!

Ok, i just had to let this out. Cause if i dont, it would screw my head off and kill some people around me.

I'm current working in a public school as a teacher. Yeah, thats right, i'm a teacher with M.A. Units.... I'm working as a unpaid volunteer teacher for these children that cant pay tuition fee for a better education in the private schools. Well, my uncle is the Mayor, Executive officer in our town and he can put any teacher he wants in these public schools including me because of his appointing powers.

Well, he cant place me last august because of the threat of nepotism... so i volunteered as a teacher even without pay so that i wont be wasting my time just studying in graduate school, and even get a bit of extra experience in teaching.

So here is that start of my rant, so from august to november, i'm a happy teacher, even without pay, i love this kids and want to continue teaching them and helping them improved. There are only 3 teachers in that school that teaches 1st and 2nd year Highschool students, so they share loads using the 8 subjects, then i joined them and so we got 4 subjects each. and we are fine...or so i thought....

then during this month of december, there was a opening on a nearby public school and my uncle was appointing me to teach there despite the negative nepotism publicity... well, its offering me a salary of 9,000 pesos..like 180USD/month... well, here its a good start... but i thought, i would be leaving this kids in exchange for a salary and better position... i made a choice, i choosed this kids even though there is no salary and the work is like hell... i thought of their well-being and made a selfless sacrifice... is that wrong?

Am I a fool for caring for this children and casting my well-being aside? Pls, tell me, did i made the wrong decision? Cause these people around me, especially my relatives is telling me I'm a fool. But they dont even know the situation of this kids. So others is more important to me than meony..is that wrong?

I know there is a world wide recession but that doesnt mean you have to forget others in exchange for money. There are more needy people than me. I have no wife, children, monetary responsibilities... thats why i dont care for money the way they need it.

No need to post, just letting my views out...

 

Nope, you are a great person.
I agree with you actually.
People become corrupted if they get much money without good mind.
And some teacher just teach to get money, don't be like them.

 

My father is the only one who is on my side, he said he was proud of me cause i love these children than the position, salary and future promotion my uncle is offering me. Also, i made a promise to my my fellow teachers and students that i would choose to leave this school/ stay after I finish this school year. I will not abandon them in the middle of the year and finish what i started.

My mother, grandmother and some other relatives told me I was a fool cause this kind of opportunity only knocks once and i should even plead to the principal to accept me in the position i turned down. Like, why should i plead, i'm a certified professional teacher. I could apply in any school in the country and even teach at the college level. But since i have a word of honor, that i will finish this school year,i will do so.

I'm not expecting a award like that Efren Penaflorida, i just want to teach and help others. Thats what a true teacher is! When I am asked what is your job, i tell them i dont have one, I have a profession, I'm a teacher.

Many people should know the difference between a job and a profession. Especially my mother and relatives...

 

Teacher is the Best-job(profession)-ever( and doctor too).
My meaning is they will become the most noble profession(not-for-money, duh.) because they help other people.
Doctor can save live so we can do more for this world.
And teacher can makes us know about ths world, so we can change this world.

 

You're doing a great thing, damanali

Just hang in there, have you ever heard of the saying "What Goes Around Comes Around"? You'll eventually see the good of what you're doing. Teaching for free in this day in age is very rare, considering everything we're going through financially.

Who knows! Maybe the school you're working at will eventually notice your hard work and will employ you. I say don't give up on what you're doing, as you said...You don't want to leave half way and not finish what you started.

Trust me when I say I feel good things coming your way.

 

Do what you think is right and I think you chose the right choice. Keep up the good work

 

Another damn day, after class, i went home and now and uncle is angry at me for disrespecting my grandmother and mother about this issue. And he didnt even let me explain or ask questions, he just warned me that if i ever disrespected those 2 again, he will kill me. he even told me not to speak cause i was trying to disrespect him... what the hell?

he even showed me the gun and expecting i look up and see what he was clocking his gun... like why dont you just shoot me? i will feel better if i died right here in his hands than commit suicide...

I want to leave this house!!! I current have a bit of a saving but i dont know if it will last me the entire stay at the school or until I find a new work with pay. I was asking my father to loan me some, but he said he will ask my mother first, like what does he expect to hear from her? Her side being right, and I'm a fool?

I want to die right now... or just leave this house as soon as possible... but if i die, it would be cheaper and quicker right? Maybe I'm really a fool to be a teacher, even as a person...crap this life of mine...

 

You made a good moral choice.

Money wise it's gonna hurt you, but here is something...

If it makes you happy, and suits what needs (emotionally and work conditions) then it's ok, infact it's GREAT!


Though I would suggest another job on the side if money starts becoming a problem, some of my old teachers back from my day's at school got second jobs...except the principal's favourates who got promoted from bus driver to office clerk XD

How are you disrespecting them?


Sheesh a bit much...I'd tell him (if I was angry...) JUST SHOOT ME ALREADY THEN!
(Had a few like this myself, just disrespecting dad causes issues...but I stand up because I know he won't hit his eldest..and most unpredicable son)


Normal reaction would be just to find another place to stay, hopefully with someone who can support you for the mean time.


If you truly like the job, stick with it and do what you can to make ends meet, forget everything else...although dumb to say, sometimes a happy hobo is better than a depressed rich man.


I do wonder what set him off...but if he won't answer then...hrm...





BTW, bit of trivia, teachers in acient times in greece worked for free, and thus was an unpopular choice of work, and even now despite unions and stuff it's not the best...not with more and more violent kids going to school (some are "friends" on mine...sadly).



I hope for the best, and good luck!


(If he fires at you and it's not a blank...better call the police or prepare your own defence)

 

Morally you have done everything you could. And I'm ecstatic that people are still around with that sort of attitude *Happy face* ^__^

Take things easy and relax, try make things easier for you, so you have lower stress levels.

 

I was even having a good mood earlier, my students just watched a film, called Pearl Harbor because our topic is about the rise of the Japanese Empire. And even after school, i was in such a good mood that everyone i met got a smile and funny remarks from me, even made a few jokes. My students really had fun today so, the teacher also is having fun.

Then when i got home, that is what hits me in the face, an angry uncle telling if i ever disrespected her mother and her sister/my mother again, he will kill me. then the gun scare. if i ever got hold of that gun, i wont hesitate pulling the trigger on him. he is not even a filipino anymore cause he is a american citizen due to naturalization years ago. i want him deported ASAP!!! he is just here cause of the recession in the USA and he got fired from his jobs there.

Can i have him arrested? he was threatining me with the gun, and he isnt even allowed to own or carry one right? cause he is a foreigner in my country, right? CRAP!!! i'm cracking up!

 

You could talk to the police about it... But the question is.... What do you really want?

 

Do what you think is the right thing to do

 

can one of the choice is to see him dead? well, technically, i hate them...my mother side... all hypocrites. thats where i got that.... i hate that side of the family, if i can choose to disown them, i would have done it a long time ago.

 

Leave your family and live your own life perhaps.
But it will be hard to do.

 

yeah, it always comes down to money. if i choosed the job with pay part, this wont happen in the first place... but if you really know them, that is just part of it, they will always find a way to make your life miserable.

also, cant go to the police, cause his brother, another uncle, is the mayor of the town and he controls the police. like he will be arrested...they will just do this: Dont you know who i am? My brother is the mayor! or my grandmother will use the shit son card. he's your brother, release him at once, son! crap!!!! I'm really looking forward to 2012.... are they dead sure the world will be reborned in that year and killing almost all people on earth?

 

You can say: "Hey! even if your brother is a mayor, he is still a human! He will die eventually!"(Umm.... forget the last sentence)

 

Then speak to your other uncle, the mayor and ask him for advice...tell him straight about what is happening.



If your words seem true, prehaps he will take your side and do something about it in your favour-he had the power to give you a teaching position right-what about making the bad uncle stop-maybe he will use the police on your behalf

 

damanali, you are one of the great filipinos who has an honest heart. I think you made the right decision. you are truly remarkable and extraordinary, pls don't let this children down and keep up the good work. this story will inspire a lot of people. from which part of the country you teach btw.

*money is not the root of all evil but it's the desire & greed for money that makes it all evil*

 

Wow, yesterday was a happy day, i didnt meet my grandmother and uncle, just waited till sundown in going home and they already went to their rooms.

I current teach at cavite, naic to be exact. i teach the children of those from paranaque and tagug squatters who were given land here. so, as you can see, they grew up in a not good environent..and not to discriminate the parents but just stating a true fact, they are the sort of you know... cast-away people... the people that society thinks are bad, criminals.... so it must be hard for the children to grew up like that...

I'm a teacher and trying to guide them that there is a better life out there for them and they should not just say that they are poor and going to grow old and die poor...

sorry for being a preachy-too good person, just stating what i think i'm doing... but these people around me, doesnt know i'm doing that...thats why they think of me as a fool...

 

You are amazing.
Those kids must be so lucky to have someone like you teach them.
You will save these kids.
One day one of them may have a great job and it's all of you to thank.
Maybe your family will see the good side to this and not be angry that your saving these children.
I believe you should try to make them understand slowly.