NO TIME TO RELAX?

ANGELA T. SILVA

There is a saying that “Everyone deserves to take a break!” For some teachers, this saying is not applicable to them. No time to relax, no time take a break, no time for themselves, no time for their families, and no time to enjoy the vacation. It’s like they are working 24/7, especially if you are working in a small school and almost all kinds of leaderships are given to you and you are bombarded by “DUE REPORTS”. What more if you need to do online work and your connection is very slow, you are more stressed and frustrated because you can’t submit it on time. You even need to wake up early in the morning amidst your lack of sleep because the signal is better during the wee hour. So how to relax?

Teachers are not only teaching in inside the four corners of the classroom. They are also working as secretaries, doing paper works, complying to the unending reports, doing the heads’reports, tracking and updating the pupils’ data in the LIS System, etc. Summer vacation should be their time to relax, still they’re working for their RPMS, gathering data for the SBM Validation and they won’t notice it’s time for Brigada Eskwela. Can they still have time to relax?

Teachers are prone to stress, because their work is exhausting and time consuming. But hey teachers, we need to relax too! Despite of our toxic job we can still relax. Its only on how we manage our time and have a positive outlook in life. Don’t think about it as a hindrance but take it as a challenge. Make a time table plan, so you can target and finish your work on time. It’s all in your mind and how you manage it. Discipline and determination are the key to make it possible.

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The author is Teacher II at Baliti Elementary School