24/04/2022
Someone wants to blame me for how bad his child has turned!
I’m a teacher and it’s been my full time job in the last twelve years.
I’ve moved from school to school and from class to class trying to make the most impact.
I’ve engaged this profession with the diligence and zest it requires, standing all day, studying all evenings and praying all nights.
I’ve sacrificed personal ambitions and I'm very ambitious, just so that I can make people's children my goal.
I know what it means to regret that I got a child's training process wrong or that I could have helped direct a child's path but failed at it.
And then heading home hungry after a long day at work because my take home pay hardly takes me home.
But they’d still blame me for all the efforts I make.
Yes I regret most times, that I’ve failed to run the race against my peers. When I see how far my friends have gone, I wish I wasn’t a teacher.
I hate when parents blame me for what they should do. I’m not super man. I’m human. They are loose, uncultured, brattish and cant control their children, who make themselves a torn in my classes.
I shout every week day till I lose my voice. I use the rod when necessary but I dare not sometimes because parents will come fight me for helping them do what they should do.
And a child brings a bad attribute from home, parents claim it’s the school or the teacher.
Did I teach the child s*x? Do I have an account on tiktok? How many people even follow me on Facebook?
They’d say, “That's why I sent my child to school, to shape them well" but they forget that the first and best school is the home front.
Teachers only make better what was good and try to repair what was broken. We often try our best.
But sometimes as much as we try the repair process, that crack is still there for all to see, showing how parents have failed.
If your child turns out bad, don’t blame the teacher, we deh try.
Blame yourself, your blindness! Because you failed the teacher.
Apologize to him. Beg him to stay faithful to the repair process. Encourage him!
Teachers are Angel’s. Teachers are virtuous. They can only help you if you'd listen to thier counsel.
Don’t claim you know. I know you’ve been to Cambridge and Oxford and all I managed to attend was the strike ridden upgraded secondary school called Nigerian University.
But I'm graced, that’s why I’m a teacher.
I’m a messenger and a tool shaping destinies.
I’m bigger than your pastor! Just that my hands are stained in the mud because of your child.
Respect me!
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