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So there's been recent discussion about whether teachers should have to pay for parking in schools, and I've personally found this review to be rather.... annoying. It's basically applying this principle of "equal misery" across the board. As one of my previous bosses had mentioned, we tend to work on this principle of equal misery, rather than equal happiness. Just because other Ministries charge for parking, schools should charge teachers too. Why not the other way round? Teachers don't pay for parking, so why not make parking free for public servants too?

On this principle of equal misery, I would therefore urge the Ministry/Public Service/whoever to also review the following:

-Teachers start work at 7.30am, some even earlier. I would propose that all public servants standardise work times to teachers' work times too.

-We should probably relook the policy of allowing public servants to work from home too. Teachers have no choice but to work in schools. On that note too, no flexi-hours please. Let's all start at 7.30am, and finish at 7pm, which is the time when teachers leave, because they have to be chased out of the schools.

-Because teachers start work early, and if they don't drive, they could potentially utilise the off-peak travel pass - this is another form of hidden perk that we should look at. Might as well remove this off-peak travel pass altogether, so that noone enjoys this benefit.

-Leave benefits. Teachers have this hidden perk of being able to have SOME time off during the school holidays, because we have no leave. I personally find this quite unacceptable. Teachers should not be allowed to enjoy the privilege of paying high prices to have to travel during this peak periods. I propose that teachers be allowed to take leave during term time instead.

-Teachers also spend a large part of the work day teaching in hot, stuffy classrooms. We end up hot and sweaty. We should extend this perk to all ministry offices by removing the air-cons. Think of all the money that teachers save by not having to go to the gym!

-While we are at it, we should also recommend to our neighbouring countries and countries around the world to ensure that no teachers around the world enjoy this benefit of free parking in schools. From my own experience, no school I have visited in the world charges for parking so far. Shocking, but true.

And seriously though, if we were to charge teachers for parking, does it mean that the public can therefore park in schools too? Would this pose any security issues? If teachers are the only ones who park in schools, as opposed to other educational institutions which are open to public, and therefore have more "guests" visiting and parking, then what's the use of charging? It's not as if the empty lots would suddenly be filled up, to increase revenue. And I signed up for teaching because of free parking in schools. If the Ministry decides to charge for season parking, the only right thing to do would be to adjust our salary by that amount, since that's the hidden perk I've been enjoying all along.

And to those "proponents" of charging teachers, you were never a proponent in the past. You're just jealous you're not the one getting the free parking. ?

Having said all this, if they do decide to charge teachers for parking in schools in the end, we'll just have to ‪#‎suckthumb‬ and pay................. Join teaching, it'd be fun.... said noone ever after....

(PS: actually it's not really a hidden perk right? Name me one person who doesn't know that teachers enjoy free parking... If it's not a hidden perk, then it's really a staff benefit!)

(PPS: before any of the stuff here gets taken out of context, and in case it wasn't quite clear, this post was meant to be satirical, rather than in jest)

‪#‎fairnessisnotequality‬ ‪#‎equalityisnotfairness‬ ‪#‎chooseequalhappiness‬

On a more serious note, perhaps one solution which would make everyone a little bit more satisfied is this Facebook post suggesting that teachers get a wage increase, so that those who drive can use the increase to offset parking charges, while those who do not drive benefit as well: