Principles of Common Good

Running head: PRINCIPLES OF COMMON GOOD
Principles of Common Good
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PRINCIPLES OF COMMON GOOD1
Common Good is defined as a sum total of the social conditions that allow people,
whether as individuals or as groups, to reach levels of fulfillment quickly and easily. Common
Good is something that concerns itself with the progress of human beings. Any society which
intends on and wishes to serve the people living in it is a society that is committed to the
principles of Common Good (Hammersley 2017). This opinion essay applies the principles of
Common Good to the problem of inadequate support for teaches in schools with the aim of
understanding how the Common Good can be used to resolve this situation.
Teachers in Australian schools have in recent years been faced with a predicament that
makes it difficult for them to perform their duties as well as they otherwise can. Teachers more
often than not, lack the autonomy that they need to do their jobs properly. They cannot often
discuss the ideas they would like to in the class, out of fear that they might hurt sentiments upon
doing so and they have to follow the course curriculum strictly when imparting their teaching
duties instead of encouraging students to be creative and to think out of the box. Teacher bashing
is very common in today’s day and age (Maclean 2019). I do know that teachers of Australian
schools are often at the receiving end of verbal abuse because their students are incompetent and
unable to understand what is taught in the class. The salaries of teachers in Australian schools are
also quite poor, with teachers not making more than seventy thousand dollars in a year even after
they have been teaching for five to seven years. Additionally, the Australian media has played a
role in portraying a negative image of teachers in the recent past. Newspaper reports have
focused more on why it is that teachers are not focusing on their duties and where they are going
wrong instead of trying to empathize with the challenges that they are faced with. Teachers in
Australian schools often have to make use of inadequate infrastructure when imparting lessons.
They lack the equipment and the facilities required at times to teach crucial concepts pertaining