Interesting Excerpts from the Teacher's Handbook

Reading through the little teacher's handbook that I received this morning and found some stuff pretty interesting.

1. Teacher have NO leave because they have school holidays! However, they are only allowed to go on holiday if the school have nothing for them. Well, recall the number of remedial lessons we had? Poor teachers.

2. Male teachers have up to 3 (consecutive) days of paternity leave for his first 4 children.

3. Teachers may apply up to 3 days of leave for this/her first marriage.

Anyway, regarding the above 3 points, lets just not bother. Lets' face it. There is no way a teacher can "take leave". Teachers are known to endure complains from parents for not turning up in school because he/she was on MC!! I do not want to be sneezing at my wedding. Nvm...

4. NIE will sponsor the training for teachers. In return, there would be a 3 year bond. Kudos to 100% employment after graduation from NIE (refer Straits Times article some time back).

5. Dress Code. Among all the no-no in NIE Lts, tutorial rooms, labs and library, it includes: revealing attire, short skirts, attire with offensive wordings, sandals. Whats wrong with short skirts? Whats offending? How about a tshirt that says "unleash the dragon" and points downward? whats wrong with sandals in library??? Teachers are saints aint they?

6. Career Advancement. In the teacher track, only Senior and Master teacher is printed (CAA June 2009). A Lead teacher and Principal Master Teacher role was just created. I really envision a Senior Principal Master Mentor Teacher soon.

I gave up reading... Oh well...