[OPINION] Have you asked your teachers how they're doing in this pandemic?

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'Does the institution care for our teachers? What if those teachers also become carriers of the virus to their students and family members? Will the Department of Education and the Commission on Higher Education be accountable for this?'

I sent an email to my students about their requirements for the semester. I was anxious at first, but even though this is an institutional directive, I felt like I had betrayed my own teaching philosophy. This new pedagogy of sending requirements and teaching online does not encourage the students to work hard or monitor their progress since it is all merely for academic completion.

For affluent students, an education degree or career is not one of their top choices. Being a teacher is like marrying your work. It means you need a fervent desire and zealous mission to stay in an environment where you are overworked, less compensated, and viewed as a second-class professional. Crossing the Rubicon River in this time of pandemic to teach and to cater to the needs of children is a vocation, not a career.

The mortality rate for COVID-19 is quite high for people aged 50 and above. This brings us to ask several questions.

As education adopts neoliberal policies, it strips off its faculty members the right to question. The administrators’ lapdogs relentlessly attack those who question the former. They equate any critique of decision-making policy as tantamount to behavior “unbecoming of an educator.” Within the framework of neoliberalism, administrators become managers rather than leaders.

 

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