TEACHING: A COMMUNITY WELFARE JOB

Teaching: A Community Welfare Job

Teaching is definitely not just teaching, something really more than that. It’s about getting involved in a field which requires more than you see in the field itself, something beyond. Classrooms and schools just stay where they are but people who come to that places will eventually return somewhere, a place that influence them more than schools and classrooms. When they return home, see their friends, I don’t think schools and classrooms will matter, as they only consider significant things in their lives. When they have a troubled family, I don’t think school is a big deal when teachers don’t make it look like that. Teachers play a major role here in implanting the notion that school and what they learn in classroom make an impact in their lives, where they will return home and tell their parents what the teacher had taught them or said. That’s what Ms Erin did in her classroom, relating to their gang and mobster life by firstly, providing them with a brand new book on the lives of gangsters. Eva Benitez brought the book to her father in prison and asked him to read it. This is a good example which shows how school life dabbles in the life of a problematic teenager. Teaching is not about giving homework and marking it the next day but an ongoing life-changing business.