As a former MOE teacher, I can attest to this and add on by saying this: Quitting the MOE system is the BEST CAREER MOVE I’ve ever made.
I have seen colleagues of the same age and NIE intake break down in tears in front of her class because of the pressure of balancing CCAs, standing comms and whaterver else on top of her core teaching commitments (she had to subsequently take long leave of absence for psychiatric treatment, and subsequently threw in the towel).
I hear my (now) ex-colleague who, just before lessons commenced and she was sitting in the staffroom, wished the whole school could just BLOW UP in flames so she didn’t have to work a day ever again in it.
I have seen an ex-colleague who was forced to resign because some idiot girl in his class forgot about the O Level D&T folio submission and blamed it all on him not clearing these things with her when he actually did (and yes, you can guess which side this rotten school chose to side with).
I could tell you all the stories about the abuse the superior/seniors inflict on their junior ones, but you have to be one to see for yourself how a once-noble profession have been turned into a “every man/woman for him/herself” SURVIVOR series and the school, a once-hallowed institution have been turned into a DEN of SELF-SERVING CIVIL SERPENTS, hypocritical at best.
Imagine these characters trying to “instill moral values” into their young students when they themselves are far from having a “moral mindset”. I shudder at that thought. After 2 years, I decided I wanted out. I would rather face the brutal vagaries of the private sector, returning back to the field I was trained in, engineering, than work a day more under such hypocritical, self serving tyrants.
Asymmetric Warfare