Day 11 today and my task is to write what makes me angry...
Since this is my teaching blog, will just try to list some of the things that make me angry, but I have to say that I always try not to keep cool.
- When potential clients / employers underestimate your studies and experience and try to pay less, although they do spend money on hairdressers, cosmeticis etc. but not on education.
- When some people owe you money telling you they have financial difficulties but their social media is full of pictures from luxurious holidays.
- When students cancel lessons for no serious reason on the same day and bring my schedule upside down (and deny to pay for the canceled hour).
- When potential students are not cooperative and flexible and demand only certain days and hours, although they begin in the middle of the school year, when I have only few slots for lessons.
- When parents do their children's homework.
- When parents don't care about their children's behavior.
- When adult students find 100 excuses not to do their homework.
- When people think that they can master a language in 3 months.
- When all they care is passing exams and not learning.
- When you tell them that they are going to need more lessons and they believe that you want to rip them off.
- When parents insist that their kid is the most intelligent one and that he/she can cover two school years in one and take a proficiency language exam at the age of 11 (or whatever age which is very young)
- When parents or students themselves show you the material they want you to use (with the exception of ESP - then you have to see terminology and what they actually want to achieve with the lessons)
- When they tell you that you have long vacation (I have to say that when I don't work I don't get paid, this means that my job has no paid vacation, no benefits or bonuses, so when I have a vacation this does not necesarily mean that I am lying at a pool drinking coktails)
- When colleagues look down on you beacuse you don't actually work at a school.
- When colleagues are too competitive and don't help eachother.
Well I am sure there are more, but I will stop "complaining" (although this post was exactly about that!
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