A teacher`s ordeal.

THE life of a private school teacher is and has never been easy, whether she works at an internationally renowned institution or at a local area school. Apart from financial issues, there are other certain alarming problems which are somewhat considered petty and are usually not discussed.

The foremost is the emotional trauma and mental agony a private school teacher suffers at her workplace. It certainly does not matter how `elite` the institute is, the petty mindset is everywhere.

One finds this sense of superiority among the so-called head teachers, coordinators, directors, etc. It gradually transforms into what looks like a `political campaign` to influence you with whatever means possible. Employees or teachers who believe in sycophancy are soon acknowledged and rewarded by the employers. Education simply has nothing to do if one wishes to have a successful job at any school.

If you want to prolong your job, you simply have to be the apple of the eye of the school head. But this certainly is not acceptable everywhere. The more qualified you are, the more your chances of rejection.

School heads will never care what you think or what the world says; rather they will make you do and think what they say.

Sometimes the poor socioeconomic personality of the employee is so shattered by school heads that you simply want to kill yourself. And this negative attitude does not stop here. It is transferred from the school head to teachers and from teachers to students, and then finally from students to our society.

We expect a local area school teacher to perform like a person with an international exposure and education despite her humble social or educational background. We never...