Worthwhile Meetings

Teachers are always complaining about a heavy workload. Being a teacher does not involve only teaching and the marking of books, but also attending meetings and keeping a record of what transpired at meetings.

I remember once the Senior Assistant of the school I was teaching at insisted that we have a small briefing session every morning. The rest of the teachers could not understand the necessity of taking away valuable time from our classroom lessons on a daily basis. So we had to come to school earlier.

The Senior Assistant always came up with some items to discuss just to fill up the time. Once we even spoke about the cows that left their trail of dung at the entrance of our school the previous night. Surely that was not an item that needed to be discussed among the teachers. He should have spoken to the cowherd!