Originally Posted by Unregistered

Of course. They easily take up 2/3 of your time.

FTship of graduating classes and/or challenging classes.
Expect endless hours writing testimonials, answering ecg queries, writing recommendation letters for dsa, handling discipline cases, meeting parents

CCA in high performing CCAs. Need to put in more hours into planning, and more frequent CCA sessions, and got pressure to maintain performance. How many awards your CCA can win or hold at syf or interschool games.

Committee also. Some committees, like CCE, should be called departments actually. The HOD doesn't really have a department of CCE teachers. The CCE/NE committee needs to plan the CCE SOWs, prepare resources, organise programmes and school-wide excursions and so much more. Calling it committee work is a big understatement.

Some of the younger teachers who aspire to climb, are given super heavy loads that are not realistic. Given a number of graduating classes, tasked to be acting SH, and at the same time still be OIC of high profile CCAs, IC and member of high profile committee(s), and form-teachership of challenging classes

Saw quite a few colleagues who got their promotion, and how their 110% effort was taken for granted, and have additional work piled on them. Burnout is real, and they left service shortly after. They are not SEOs, and it is not worth it to sacrifice health and personal time, working insane hours just to get GEO4, GEO5.

Scholars do normal amount of work, and get promoted like clockwork. Farmers have to work above and beyond for years to get the same promotion.

Very meritocratic.