In order to hold my job as a teacher in my home state I have to be a member of The Victorian Institute of Teaching. This means going through a rigorous police check procedure in which my background is scrutinised in order to work out whether I'm a threat to children or not.
It always amazes how magic this card is. Schools are incredibly strict about not letting anyone who isn't VIT registered teach in, or sometimes even enter, their premises.
When I returned to Australia after years of travel, the VIT took six weeks to process my application and issue me their card. In that time I had a school who desperately wanted me to teach. They'd interviewed me, checked my qualifications, consulted my references and checked me out. They wanted to pay me to teach but without the card nothing was going to happen. I couldn't even use the toilet in the building without someone making sure they knew where I was.
Then the day the card arrived I was a completely different person. Suddenly I was allowed to have full supervision of a group of children. Just like that.
I'd love to say that the card is an intricate and forge-proof piece of engineering which would be impossible to replicate, but sadly it's not. I often look at it and wish that it's magical powers were a lot harder to artificially reproduce with a laser printer and a laminator.
Read other answers by David Stewart on Quora:
- What's the most important card in your wallet?
- What lies do you tell your children to make your life easier?
- What's something that you never notice may be wrong (or can be changed) until you see it done in a different way?
from Quora http://ift.tt/2j4ortE
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