The first time I heard that joke I thought it was so funny I inhaled the ice from my Bacardi and coke and nearly choked. I need a good laugh today.
I'm going to be controversial now and say that I don't think teaching is any harder than any other job. I can see colleagues jumping up and down and shouting at my blog now, saying things like 'it's because you're not a proper teacher' and that may be true. What I do think makes teaching a difficult job, apart from having to deal with children all day long, is the perception other people have of it. They think it is less than a full time career, that takes enthusiasm, effort, energy and intelligence. Even my husband didn't understand that I couldn't just leave at 3 on Friday to make an early start on our trip to Sunderland for the next University visit. He gets grumpy if I work at home too. I often wonder where people think teachers pluck all these brilliant ideas for lessons from. It's the same with music. If you are a musician people think you can just play anything; if an orchestra have listened to the 1812 overture then they should just be able to play it but it doesn't work like that. Music is a foreign language to most people and so they would never understand the work involved in arranging 10 National Anthems for 2 part choir and beginner orchestra. I just want to let everyone know that if I'm grumpy it's because I can't tell you that the music I bought isn't in singable keys, or that I have a bunch of parallel 5ths in my arrangement and I can't work out the melisma's in the Welsh National Anthem!
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