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RE: ADSactly Life : Teaching with Your Fingernails
It's so good to see you around here with an extremely interesting subject. As a teacher in a country going through a terrible economic moment, I had to manage to achieve my academic goals and I juggled as if I were in a circus. I respect the reasons why people can stop teaching in Venezuela, especially if the personal situation is as unbearable as a thousand kilo stone. He who is made to teach does so even with his eyes, and you, my very dear friend, @hlezama, teach with your word. I'm glad you're on the @adsactly team. Welcome and hugs ;)
Thanks, @nancibriti. My gratitude to the @adsactly team, especially to @princessmewmew, for the suppport and the opportunity they have given me.
I did my best to teach with all the resources I could put together. I tried to provide my students with as many tools as possible so that they could be the best (some of them have thanked me for that), but in a system that promotes conformism, mediocrity, and corruption it is hard to keep one's integrity. Sooner or later we sucumb to the forces that press us against the wall.
In the particular case of teaching English, we started to renounce to most of what makes learning a second language an exciting experience. Our language lab was looted, so our students did not have the chance to practice listening and pronunciation skills; our library became obsolete, as we stopped receiving books and were unable to buy them from our pockets; cultural interchange with English-speaking countries were cancelled when it became too dangerous for other countries to send their students to Venezuela; our student became unable to afford even a photocopy of any teaching material and eventually drop out rates were so high we did not even have students to teach. Thus, the whole crisis ruined a vital part of the educational system, which is to provide students with skills in other languages which may give them the upper hand in the job market.