

Studying to be an english teacher in turkey, I can relate to “the university could have been a blog post” a lot. My professors can barely speak english or prepare exam questions in english. Our entire semesters curriculum could fit in a 4 hour study session and I am not exaggerating. I still dont ace the exams cuz I cant correctly decypher the exam questions from “professor” to english. I swear my uni isnt that bad either and the curriculum is more or less the same as everywhere else.
When I was in school, teachers literally told us the exam questions a week before the exam. So everyone got good grades despite knowing fuck all. A lot of my classmates started smoking/joining “gangs”/drinking at a young age. I suspect half the teachers either hated children or were pedos. The government pays public school teachers well for doing fuck all so they dont care about teaching anyway.
Ive never been to a private school but all i know is the teachers are overworked and underpaid in most schools and the students also dont learn shit, yet they are given perfect grades. My cousin goes to a private school and he took an exam made by the private school which consists of 10-20 questions from every class and and its graded out of 500 points and he consistently got 430-450 which is like top 1% but when he took an official test (the same format) he got 360 points (less than top 10% i think). I dont think the questions themselves are harder but the private schools just lie about scores.
If I am lucky and get hired at a public school the gov will send me to eastern turkey for at least a few years and I will relate to your post even more then. Edit: I also forgot to mention that I will have to work with the kurdish/syrian/afghan etc minority kids in eastern turkey who are treated horribly. There is a reason eastern turkey is the poorest part yk.
I also want to give you advice, though I dont have teaching experience at all. I think its okay to give up on majority of the students. However from a revolutionary perspective education is the most useful tool a person can have right before class consciousness. So if you do sense that there is at least 1 student who is willing to learn and to improve themselves, do your best to help them out. I know your situation is bad, hundreds of times worse than what ive experienced, but Ive been in many classrooms where honestly every student was beyond help, but I somehow managed to “pull myself by my bootstraps”. so maybe some student in your classroom will be inspired by your efforts in the future and improve themselves and others around them.
Lastly I want to point out that your mental health is invaluable, preserve it at all costs. Do not push yourself beyond your limits for these (sorry for the mean words) violent, drug addict students who are a danger to themselves and people around them. If you feel tired, its okay to do the bare minimum and to give up.














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Can i get one now( ・ω・) please?