This is what I mailed to all my colleagues at work, even my bosses. I was listening to J tell me how she was treated by the management during the school holidays over some extremely minor issue. We were cautioning her about being extra careful from now on as it seems that the management has something against her and they are going all out to look for her faults, no matter how minor. We have seen that happen to our fellow colleagues. The thing is, we can find fault in everyone on almost any issue in school. It's up to the management whether they want to bring up these faults and highlight them or not. One of our colleagues got it real bad and he was forced to resign.

Anyway, below is the email that I just sent out to everyone at work. I did not bother to put in the attachment. I don't really care if anyone is going to find fault in my email. (You'll be surprised, they CAN do that ok) But hey, can you catch the subtle hints that I tried to drop regarding certain issues?

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this is for the well-being of our soul....I find this email attachment very meaningful.

Just some of my random thoughts...

Sometimes amidst our busy work schedules, we do tend to forget how to live and not just exist. Life isn't just about work alone. Especially for us, if we begin to treat what we do as work, then we would have lost the focus of what teaching is all about.

We are teachers. Our most important responsibility is to ensure that our students get the education that they deserve, that we impart our skills in our various areas to them, that we teach and nurture the right vales in them through different activities so that when they leave us, they are better prepared to face the trials of their own lives on their own. I believe we have all done so, and that should be our greatest pride and satisfaction. All the others are nitty gritty non-related issues that should be deemed as less significant as compared to the "helicopter view" of us being educators, don't you thnk?

Amidst our busy schedules, we might have forgotten that we must take care of ourselves and our soul. Do take some time to read this email that I got from a very good friend of mine. I hope it will somehow help to eradicate some of your stress, if you are in any way stressed.

Term 2 is beginning soon. Take care, everyone.

Smiles
HH