今日のボヤキ3/20
今日のボヤキは「学校教育における教師の現状」について考えたいと思います。
皆さんは学校の先生に対してどのような印象をもっているでしょうか？
良くも悪くも私は先生に対して好き嫌いがなく、基本「無」の感情でした。
だからこそ小学校では毎年担任が変わっても、高校で部活の顧問が毎年変わってもうまくやっていけたのかもしれませんね。
そんな中で、気になるのは教師の置かれる立ち位置です。
自分たちの親世代では、先生は絶対的な存在であり体罰という言葉はなく、熱量の高い先生が多かったのではないかと推測ではありますが、そのような印象を受けます。
https://373news.com/_news/storyid/152551/
鹿児島県教育委員会の東條広光教育長は４日、精神疾患で２０２１年４月～２２年２月に休職した公立学校教職員（市立高校除く）は全体の０．５％に当たる８７人だったことを明らかにした。県議会一般質問での答弁。
校種別では小学３３人、中学３２人、高校１４人、特別支援８人。年代は２０代１１人、３０代１３人、４０代２２人、５０代４１人。理由は学習・生徒指導上の悩み、職場や保護者との対人関係など。教職員課は「教職員が安心して働けるよう支援していく」としている。
昨今「体罰」に対して世間が過剰に反応しすぎている気がします。
確かに「体罰」はよくないかも入れませんが、生徒がわざと煽って誘発させたり、生徒は手をあげても教師は黙って受け入れる行かないという状況は一般的に考えて奇妙ではありませんか？また、公立校であれば教師の判断や学校の判断では退学にできず、「教育を受ける権利」があると主張してきます。
これでは教師を志望する人が減少するのは明白でしょう。
採用試験の倍率が年々下がり、教室の質も確保できなくなるのは確かなことです。
また、教師に憧れ努力をした人ほど、現実とのギャップに絶望し休職や離職をする確率が高くなっています。これは教師に限った話ではなく、公務員全体に共通して言えることですが、「税金を払っているのは市民だから、公僕になれ」そんなセリフを聞くことがあります。
これは間違っているのではないでしょうか？
確かに、公務員は税金によって運営されていますが、公務員自身も市民であり税金を納めています。また、その職務を行わなければ市民の安全で円滑な生活は守れないのではないでしょうか？
「現在と未来を守る仕事」として、互いに敬意を払い尊重しあえる社会を築くために教育の場の意識改革から進んでいくといいなと考えます。
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Today's blurbs 3/16
Today's blabbermouth would like to think about the "current situation of teachers in school education.
What is your impression of school teachers?
For better or worse, I had no likes or dislikes toward my teachers, basically "nothing" feelings.
Perhaps that is why I was able to get along so well with my homeroom teacher changing every year in elementary school and my club advisor changing every year in high school.
In such a situation, what I am concerned about is the position teachers are placed in.
In our own parents' generation, teachers were absolute beings, and the word "corporal punishment" was not used, I can only speculate that many of them were highly passionate teachers.
https://373news.com/_news/storyid/152551/
Hiromitsu Tojo, the Kagoshima Prefectural Board of Education's Superintendent of Education, announced on April 4 that he had been diagnosed with a mental illness from April 2021 to February The number of public school teachers and staff (excluding municipal high schools) who took a leave of absence in February 2012 was 87, or 0.5% of the total. The answer was given in a general question at the prefectural assembly.
By school type, there were 33 elementary school teachers, 32 junior high school teachers, 14 high school teachers, and 8 special needs teachers. In terms of age, 11 were in their 20s, 13 were in their 30s, 4 22 were in their 0s, and 41 were in their 50s. Reasons included learning and student teaching concerns, interpersonal relationships at work and with parents. The Teachers' Section states that it will "support teachers and staff so that they can work with peace of mind.
I feel that the public has been overreacting to "corporal punishment" in recent years.
It is true that "corporal punishment" may not be a good idea, but isn't it strange in general to have a situation where students are deliberately agitated and provoked, or where students raise their hands but teachers do not go quietly and accept them? In addition, if the students are in public schools, they cannot be expelled based on the teacher's or school's decision, and they will insist that they have the "right to an education".
This will obviously decrease the number of people who want to become teachers.
It is certain that the ratio of employment examinations will decrease year by year and that the quality of classrooms will not be ensured.
In addition, the more people who aspire to become teachers and work hard, the higher the probability that they will take a leave of absence or leave the profession due to despair over the gap between the reality and the aspirations of those who have made the effort. This is not limited to teachers but is common to all civil servants, but we sometimes hear such a line as "Citizens pay taxes, so you should be a public servant.
Isn't this wrong?
Certainly, public officials are funded by taxes, but they are citizens and pay taxes. And if they did not perform their duties, would they not be able to protect the safe and smooth lives of citizens?
I hope that we can make progress starting with a change in awareness in the field of education to build a society that respects and honors each other as "a job to protect the present and the future.
