WHAT MAKES LIFE AS A TEACHER FRUSTRATING

I have been teaching for almost ten years. All the while I thought that this is really my vocation-it is here where I feel I belong. However, this year (SY 2008-09) is my all time low as a teacher. Never in my ten years of teaching have I been so challenged leading to so much frustrations and feelings of utter helplessness and bewilderment. What have I done wrong? Or what good have I not done well that I deserve to feel this way. I AM SO FRUSTRATED WITH TEACHING THIS YEAR. I have quite a number of reasons to wit.

ARE THE STUDENTS GETTING DUMBER AND MORE STUPID?
This year, I made it a pact with my soul that I have to instill even a semblance of discipline among the students. I have observed that our students' behavior has deteriorated from worse several years ago to worst this year. Though they have been reciting like morons and headless corpse the school's vision, its real meaning doesn't sink in at all in their meager gray matters. They do not seem to understand at all where our vision is supposed to bring them, of what the vision is supposed to mold them to be. So pathetic...and what a waste of both time and effort.

HAVE THE STUDENTS' FEELING BEEN NUMBED BY TOO MUCH PAIN IN THE FAMILY?
Observing our students, I come to a conclusion that most of them have a sad family and a very less supportive relations. I may be wrong but the way our students are misbehaving in school is a blatant and blunt display of how repressive and oppressive their families are. I cannot imagine where most of our students are coming from! Most of them do not know the difference between clean and dirty that they can consume their snacks in total abandon of the garbage and trash all around drowning them in an endless ocean of kalat.

HAVE THE STUDENTS BEEN GETTING A BAD EXAMPLE FROM US TEACHERS AND THEIR PARENTS?
If this be true, then I might as well resign from teaching and die. But I am quite sure that in our own little ways and in all our gargantuan efforts, the teachers have been trying their best to be of good example to our students. Sometimes though, our teachers do feel down and may have started showing not so favorable actions and behaviors to our students. But these students (if they only have been thinking) would have had understood that the very cause of their teachers losing their cool is they themselves. Ito na kasi ang mahirap sa mga manhid at mga bobong estudyante. Talaga ngang hindi makakaintindi. Tatanga-tanga...tanga naman talaga. Or are the parents the culprit? No comment.