Letters: Paying teachers to make mischief [Independent.ie]
- Published: 11 April 2010
Sir -- I refer to the article entitled 'The great escape into teaching' that featured in last week's paper (Sunday Independent, April 4, 2010). After reading this article I was both amazed and disappointed.
The opening assertion that "teaching is seen as a lifestyle choice" shocked me. "A lifestyle choice?" I asked myself. But I thought all teachers were in their "vocation" because they felt a need to educate the young, because they always knew they wanted to be teachers, because they didn't mind correcting papers long into the night while us private-sector workers clocked off at five from a day of drinking coffee and chatting at the water cooler?
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