TO BE OR NOT TO BE A TEACHER?!

A WORD OF PROTEST AND INDIGNATION
I am now a teacher for 33 years, not to mention the three years I had worked as a volunteer teacher for underprivileged children while attending (Magistério) Preparation School for Teachers .I always loved my profession, although often  I cried, I got very stressed with the lack of students interest in learning and especially the neglect and disrespect of the them. During those more than 30 years I've seen and watched the decline of Brazilian education teaching. To teach in school, classrooms with more than 40 or 50 students, became a nightmare for me and most of the teachers.
I dedicated all those years doing my best, often going to work sick, in pain, educating and training many people. Initially as a Portuguese teacher and after  an English teacher. Some of them, as far as I know, today are Doctorate, Doctors, Lawyers, Judges, politicians ... and even well succeed in life. But I wanted to pursue a career as a teacher, the family pride. In the beginning of my career, early 1980s, a teacher was still respected, prized.
After trying and fighting a lot for retirement, which is nothing more than fair and well deserved, I was repeatedly denied by INSS  (National Social Security (Pension) Institute), finally in June, this year, 2013, I managed to get retired: A MINIMUM WAGE - LITTLE MORE THAN R$600,00 .
Can I stop working? Only the rent paid for a right to housing, is more than double that.
Needless to say one more word. Save the schoolteacher!
Anita Fanzlau Varjão