VietNamNet Bridge – Working under hard pressure and earning little money are the main reasons that make a half of Vietnamese teachers feel regret that they chose to become teachers.

The report by the Education Science Research Institute has released a report which has stirred up the public, saying that 50 percent of Vietnamese teachers wish they have not chosen to work as teachers.

Dr Vu Trong Ry from the institute said he posed the same question to general school teachers: Will you choose to work as a teacher once again, if you are allowed to make decision again?

40.9 percent of primary school teachers said "no.” Meanwhile, the figures were 59 percent for secondary school teachers and 52.4 percent for high school teachers.

Half of Vietnamese teachers have become fed up with the teaching job because of the low income. The job cannot feed teachers themselves and their families. Since teachers cannot live on their main career, they have to take extra jobs, from giving private tutoring lessons, working on rice field, trading or asking for the support from relatives.

Ry has warned that once teachers feel tired of the teaching job, they would not have the driving force to continue teaching. They would just try to fu ... Xem thêm