Did some marking at his place just now. I am weighed down by tons of marking! I guess its like that for all maths teachers. You got to set homework so that they get the practice, but that also means that you will have lots of marking to do! If I don't finish what I have on my table in the next 2 days, I will have twice the amount to complete by then!

The staff welfare committee came up with a proposal today and circulated it among the staff for feedback. It was regarding the printing of worksheets by teachers. Usually, teachers get stressed up having to print worksheets themselves for their classes for that day. And most of the time, we are not able to prepare the worksheets way beforehand. We are allowed to collect 2 reams of paper at each time and we use these to print our so-called last mintue worksheets. The office staff helps to print worksheets but you need to give them 24 hours advance notice at least. SO, the new scheme is as such : we will be allowed to bring down last minute worksheets for the office clerks to print, provided about 1 hour is given for the printing. In allowing this, the trade-off is that each teacher is only allowed to collect a maximum of THREE reams of paper for a YEAR. (it used to be unlimited)

I replied "No" to this new scheme. Most of the rest of the staff did the same too.