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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Its really sad to see teachers mocking the idea of 'every school is a good school'. If you don't think that the kids you teach are worth teaching, then why are you in the profession? Yes, there are students with challenging backgrounds which influences their classroom behaviour, but really isn't our jobs about making a difference in their lives? What's the point of being a teacher if you just want to teach high performing students where you don't have to do much at all.
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the issue with that 'motto' is that it's an unopen secret that access to resources are never equal. students in certain schools will enjoy far more opportunities than their counterparts in 'neighbourhood' schools. it was never about teachers mocking that rhetoric, but rather more about how distant the senior management was from the reality on the ground.
if you're an educator, it's disappointing if you choose to pretend that everything is rosy despite the shortcomings, out of convenience or for your own whatever self interest. yes, much more work needs to be done to address level the access to opportunities if we're critical of the tagline, but nobody said teaching gonna be easy.
'all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others'