Is it just me?
Saw this on ST Forum.
Attract more to teaching jobs with better benefits(as copied from Piper's blog. I'm too lazy to type)
WITH the recent articles on health-care spending and making health care more affordable, I am reminded of my own health-care spending.
As a mother of three young children below the age of seven, I frequently have to visit the nearest GP clinic whenever one of them falls sick, which is quite common among children of their age.
Polyclinics are never as convenient and time-saving as the nearby GP clinic, especially when you have to carry a sick child and rush to work.
I quit my private-sector job and joined the civil service as a teacher recently. I am disappointed that I can claim up to only $350 a year in medical claims for visits to private clinics. This includes dependants and $50 for dental claims.
I wonder how this benefit will help me effectively as a mother of not one but three young children - not forgetting the rising cost of health care.
What the private sector can do in benefits schemes, I am sure the public sector can do likewise to catch up.
If the Ministry of Education wants to attract more mid-career entrants into teaching, this can be one area of improvement, besides adjusting salaries. For that matter, my salary is less than half of what I was paid in the private sector.
Lynn Chong Fui Lian (Ms)
I may be wrong, it might be just me. But this letter makes me boil, as it sounds like "hey! I thought teaching got quite a few benefits one, then I switch ok? How come so little compared to what I had previously? Like that how to attract people?" kind of letter to me.
As Piper, Singapore-teacher, and a few teacher bloggers have pointed out - the amount of pay a teacher receive is not really enough compared to the amount of work a teacher has to do, and the number of hours they spent on it. As Mrs Chua pointed out, teaching is a "people-intensive" career.
If it takes money to make a person switch their career to teaching rather than their passion or interest, then I guess we are better off not having such people in the service.
If it takes money to make it easier for a person to switch to teaching as it's their passion all along, I think it's justifiable.
But the way Ms Lynn Chong put it, it sounds more like the former to me. If you want to switch to serve your passion, knowingly that your pay would be lesser, why are you complaining about the choice you have made?
If your point is just that teachers deserve better benefits that is comparible to the private sector, which I agree to a certain extent, why bring dig up the "sacrifices" you made, when it was you who made the choice?
Then again, it might be just me who interprated it like this.
Attract more to teaching jobs with better benefits(as copied from Piper's blog. I'm too lazy to type)
WITH the recent articles on health-care spending and making health care more affordable, I am reminded of my own health-care spending.
As a mother of three young children below the age of seven, I frequently have to visit the nearest GP clinic whenever one of them falls sick, which is quite common among children of their age.
Polyclinics are never as convenient and time-saving as the nearby GP clinic, especially when you have to carry a sick child and rush to work.
I quit my private-sector job and joined the civil service as a teacher recently. I am disappointed that I can claim up to only $350 a year in medical claims for visits to private clinics. This includes dependants and $50 for dental claims.
I wonder how this benefit will help me effectively as a mother of not one but three young children - not forgetting the rising cost of health care.
What the private sector can do in benefits schemes, I am sure the public sector can do likewise to catch up.
If the Ministry of Education wants to attract more mid-career entrants into teaching, this can be one area of improvement, besides adjusting salaries. For that matter, my salary is less than half of what I was paid in the private sector.
Lynn Chong Fui Lian (Ms)
I may be wrong, it might be just me. But this letter makes me boil, as it sounds like "hey! I thought teaching got quite a few benefits one, then I switch ok? How come so little compared to what I had previously? Like that how to attract people?" kind of letter to me.
As Piper, Singapore-teacher, and a few teacher bloggers have pointed out - the amount of pay a teacher receive is not really enough compared to the amount of work a teacher has to do, and the number of hours they spent on it. As Mrs Chua pointed out, teaching is a "people-intensive" career.
If it takes money to make a person switch their career to teaching rather than their passion or interest, then I guess we are better off not having such people in the service.
If it takes money to make it easier for a person to switch to teaching as it's their passion all along, I think it's justifiable.
But the way Ms Lynn Chong put it, it sounds more like the former to me. If you want to switch to serve your passion, knowingly that your pay would be lesser, why are you complaining about the choice you have made?
If your point is just that teachers deserve better benefits that is comparible to the private sector, which I agree to a certain extent, why bring dig up the "sacrifices" you made, when it was you who made the choice?
Then again, it might be just me who interprated it like this.
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