Career as Teacher

Originally Posted by Unregistered

morale of the story: dont be a specialist where job mobility becomes issues

U mean don’t be in CS, PS?

Join CS, PS, if u are ok to be a ‘Yes’ man, non-scholars: be contented with having no progression despite working really hard and being outstanding, serving scholars who are your bosses lor.

Wonder whether this year there will be more promotions, given that there were very few in the past few years?
Some have been stuck since 2018 at GEO 3

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Join CS, PS, if u are ok to be a ‘Yes’ man, non-scholars: be contented with having no progression despite working really hard and being outstanding, serving scholars who are your bosses lor.

joke of a system, only breeds complacency and lack of accountability

Originally Posted by Unregistered

joke of a system, only breeds complacency and lack of accountability

Yup. There’s just something not quite right about the system.

Scholars will be parachuted to be bosses. Book smart. But can lead n make good decisions or not? Not too sure about that.

Non scholars will just be so-called stuck. So when they realise this, most of them will just want to farm n be yes-man, even though the policies n initiatives set by scholars cmi.

Even those non scholars who managed to be promoted to middle managers, will also slack off after a while. Cuz unlike private sector where ppl taking high positions n high pay need to constantly improve n prove their worth or risk being retrenched, there is no fear of loss of job even if they do not perform, hence breeding n encouraging laziness.

There u have it.
At the top, scholars who r only book smart n no clue what is going on
Middle managers who can afford to slack once they’re up there cuz no fear of retrenchment even if they do not perform
Bottom dwellers who see thru the system how? U will have good performers who r not recognized quitting civil service, n the other group knows their career is going to just remain mediocre, hence they rather just stay in the system n be farmers n slackers

Rot from top to bottom

Fully fully agree. The teaching service is now really rotten from top to bottom.
What meritocracy? Work hard also no use.
Work hard and outstanding but not scholar = no chance

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Fully fully agree. The teaching service is now really rotten from top to bottom.
What meritocracy? Work hard also no use.
Work hard and outstanding but not scholar = no chance

indeed together with many who go for perks like seeing their students zao geng or dating their students

Teachers, how many VPs do you know that are not scholars? Any idea?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Join CS, PS, if u are ok to be a ‘Yes’ man, non-scholars: be contented with having no progression despite working really hard and being outstanding, serving scholars who are your bosses lor.

working hard and thinking you are outstanding is what you think. maybe your peers dont agree with you,

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Teachers, how many VPs do you know that are not scholars? Any idea?

There are a fair number. Of course, scholars are still disproportionately represented.