BCTF Day

The more I reflect on this day the more humour I find in it. The burning questions from our student body centered on how much we are getting for pensions. Personally I found these questions disheartening. A reflection of people's priorities being misplaced. If you want to make money teaching go overseas and work for 120k a year tax free. If you want a nest egg take 20k of that and invest it each year until you retire. Problem with pensions solved.
We were given our forms to fill out like good little soldiers. Told not to ask questions, and we powered through the content for the forms. Thank goodness I had none since the line-up to question the BCCT guy was huge.
I found our workshops a re-hashing of things that we have been told before. I did the classroom management and how to deal with troubled kids. I was hoping we would get to do something hands on but was subjected to yet another power-point presentation containing nothing groundbreaking.
I feel like the powers that be are pushing us through bureaucracy to prepare us for more bureaucracy. As a student I found it condescending and painful to be shown how to point and click at a website. I question how these people can really get enthused about teaching, when our most powerful presentation was by a career TOC who failed at running his own classroom and enjoys being a TOC because it gives him the time to watch television.
Very Inspiring.
So here is a weblink I thought everyone could enjoy, and have a laugh. Enjoy we all need it.
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=665847