If teaching is a great thing, teachers are the least paid in the economy. At least in France where teaching languages is one step from starving. And that is true for the large companies that charge a fortune their students (in general businesspeople whose companies want or need them to speak another language for professional reasons) and a very small part of it goes to the teacher. And that is a contradiction because the teachers are the second main important persons in the organization. Salespeople are, indeed, the main actors who sell languages lessons. But without the teachers, no school, in this case the company, could make money. Because the students have in front of them human beings who are, all the time, trained teachers who do the real job. But in France, and in large organizations, as well as in smaller ones, management act like in all companies: they think that they are important when in reality they are only hurdles and very often incompetent and therefore useless for the company.
So teachers are underpaid and also poorly regarded. Well that is not the only sector of the economy where the most important people of an organization get the worst paycheck monthly. But the French system is based on incompetency and non democratic ways of managing a company and people. One could write books about this and still would miss a lot of points. The problem is that that the system here is still like it was in the dark ages: one person gets (through force and relations, not to mention political help) to the top job of a company and thinks that it is his or her company. Therefore does not act as a normal and modern manager but as if he or she has the knowledge and as if it is only him who knows the truth. For him (more than for women manageress) everyone is wrong but him. So we can easily guess what is happening next: when the company does well (and it is not common unless the manager is from another country: we have a lot of such examples in France) it is him who is the main responsible for the good results. But when it does not go well, it is everyone else fault.
And teaching in schools, whether they are elementary, secondary or universities and of course private ones, is exactly the same picture. And to add another bad aspect, the pay is bad.
So teachers are underpaid and also poorly regarded. Well that is not the only sector of the economy where the most important people of an organization get the worst paycheck monthly. But the French system is based on incompetency and non democratic ways of managing a company and people. One could write books about this and still would miss a lot of points. The problem is that that the system here is still like it was in the dark ages: one person gets (through force and relations, not to mention political help) to the top job of a company and thinks that it is his or her company. Therefore does not act as a normal and modern manager but as if he or she has the knowledge and as if it is only him who knows the truth. For him (more than for women manageress) everyone is wrong but him. So we can easily guess what is happening next: when the company does well (and it is not common unless the manager is from another country: we have a lot of such examples in France) it is him who is the main responsible for the good results. But when it does not go well, it is everyone else fault.
And teaching in schools, whether they are elementary, secondary or universities and of course private ones, is exactly the same picture. And to add another bad aspect, the pay is bad.
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