Do they really care?

Do they really care? Over the two years my little girl attended the special class for Autism I have often wondered about the teachers. At times, they made me feel that they are superior in their knowledge in teaching children with special needs, and I am so inferior, that all I need to do is to leave everything to them. However, at times their conversations and attitude towards these children made me feel that it's just a job to them. Do they really care about these children, when they opted for this job? They made me feel it's just something they need to do, to earn a salary, for their living. Besides, these children hardly improves. This is the impression I get whenever I tried to discuss or share with them my daughter's achievements at home. They always seem so sceptical, as if I created these stories to convince myself of her abilities.

After a long absence of 2 months from the special class, hubby went to the centre, to bring back Joy's personal belongings, and to get the deposit back. What he described made me feel so disappointed. The teachers who taught Joy ignored him the whole 5 minutes he was there. Yup, he was there only for 5 minutes, and no one bothered to ask about my dear daughter, who was their student for the past 2 years and 4 months. Her tuition teacher also ignored him. No one bothered to even talk to him. The clerk just handed him a plastic bag of Joy's personal belongings and the deposit money.

Do they really care? If they do, I would have expected them to enquire how is Joy doing now at home. All her teachers have my handphone number, and no one bothered to call or send a message asking about her. Her tuition teacher for the past 2 years (she stopped tuition this year) never showed any concern over our decision to pull Joy out of the class. Do they really care?

* Note that previously I referred to them as Joy's therapists, but now I felt that they totally do not deserve even to be called teachers. They are just concerned with the salary they earn, to the expense of the parents of special needs who they made to believe are helpless without them. With Rm 280 only for 19 afternoons of 3 hours, and the teachers often starting late and ending early... It is not worth it, especially with the very low expectations and low motivation they have to teach these special needs children.