It concerns me when people want to define the term “feral" to have some other meaning. The word is clearly defined in any English dictionary. Like altering the meaning of any word, all that is achieved by this is to muddy the water for those trying to communicate.
You also have to question the motives behind this. There is a lot of factual and emotive information attached to the word feral, particularly in the Australian context. The logical conclusion is that someone wants to ride on the coat tails of this mass of information with a false concept that does not belong there.
Blue
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LOL!! oh yeah poor teachers!
too many holidays!,short workdays! Good money, maternity leave etc etc, and when you are supposedto be at work you go on strike lol!
I did a number of jobs over a number of years before I got into teaching. These include: Factory Hand; Machine Operator - Grinding; Sheet Metal Worker; Taxi Driver; Bus Conductor; Brickie’s Labourer; Fencing Contractor; Public Servant – clerk Dept. of Defence.. Teaching is by far the most demanding job I have done but it was also the most personally rewarding.
Cement, I wonder would you survive in the classrom, let alone cope with the developmental programming (catering for multiple levels), the lesson preparation and the marking required? As a teacher you take what you are given, and you cannot touch them and you cannot swear at them, nor can you even threaten them, irrespective of what they say to you. But you are expected to teach them and get results. Sounds good, eh?
I used to think school holidays were to give the kids a break. I now reckon they are to save the sanity of teachers. As for the money, have a good look in the staff carpark of the next school you see and then compare that with the local shopping centre. While you are doing that, bear in mind that a majority of teachers have done a minimum of four years of tertiary training and continue to do in-service training, both in and out of school hours on an on-going basis. As for your final comment – I really don’t think going on strike during holidays would get the point across, do you?
Blue