Teaching comes with its own set of challenges. While it might appear simple, the reality is quite different when you’re working with primary school students.
In a recent amusing video shared by @eldenchan17, he shares a glimpse into the experience of teaching standard 1 students at a Chinese primary school in Kuala Lumpur.
“You should be calling me teacher”
In the video, Elden is seen assisting students that approaches him. However, his students decided to approach him while repeatedly addressing him as “abang“ instead of teacher.
Speaking to WORLD OF BUZZ, Elden shared how at the time of the incident, he was teaching sentence formation during a Malay language lesson.
“Abang? You should be calling me teacher.”
Even though Elden told the students to call him “teacher” instead of “abang,” the students keep teasingly calling him “abang” anyway.
“I was left with only 2% of physical strength”
Elden jokingly remarked that working out at the gym doesn’t compare to the exhaustion of teaching standard 1 students. He also added,
“After each session of teaching, I realised that only 2% of my physical strength remained.”
The students not only insisted on calling him “abang“, but they also continued to tease him by attempting to balance a pencil on his nose, making the situation even more hilarious.
Netizens in the comment section found the situation amusing, leading them to flood the comments with their own experience in teaching kids!
“You’re lucky your students called you ‘abang‘. I got called ‘makcik’ I bet next year they’ll be calling me grandmother.”
“Anyone who teaches standard 1 students knows just how exhausting it can be. By the end of the session, you’re already feeling a sore throat coming on.”
“During my time teaching standard 1 students, I had one student who called me ‘mommy.’ While we were doing a class activity, out of nowhere, the student asked, ‘Mommy, how do I do this?'”
“Yesterday, one of my students referred to me as ‘cikgu seni’ (arts teacher) instead of using my name.”
You can watch the amusing video down below:
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Hopefully, Elden gets enough beauty sleep to face his students in class!
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