Ok so here it is finally.
People are really opening up their mouth against it. It’s not that I am against
it but when the case is too icky to comment or the issue too sensitive, don’t
you think that we should actually think before we speak, leave alone maintain
silence.
Actually it came into my notice after reading a daily
that a certain boy, a school boy has committed suicide after being humiliated
from school. The news as usual spread like fire, principal insulted, School
gheraoed and action is being planned against teacher or might have been taken
against her.
And as usual people have many theories against the issue;
while some say it is personal rage, other pitch in for family issues and then a
whole lot of new Homo sapiens vie for childhood trauma that scars the life and
hence we have here the pain inflicting not so perfect a role model teacher. STOP.
Stop and think. What are the odds of such a
case to happen? A teacher a living
embodiment of respect (sans a few) yeah I agree to that but in the topic, the
teacher was just punishing the boy for not doing his homework correctly. And
that in this century is a crime. A healthy relationship between a teacher and
student dictates that a teacher will punish the student for any wrong doings and
still will be able to bless the student for a bright future. And although he is
not above human beings the teacher is seen with respects that society
associates that it does to few others. But that is a steep deteriorating curve
and we today leave no stones undone to malign the name. Obviously I am in no
such situation to feel the grief of the family that lost the boy and the
situation that provoked such a gruesome outcome but yet my question remains the
same that “Is it really worth it?”
The problem lies in the
generation of 21st century to over-hype the things. T react overtly
or to ignore and these things come from the age old idiot box. The TV has
proved in more than less occasion that the influence of moving images in bright
colours affects not any insane person but sane persons at a proportion that can
be surprising and it leads to the action of aggression by that person that
leaves the person surprised because he was not to act in that way. The main
problem is it affects the sub-conscious, the part of brain that we cannot
control and hence in case of intrepid moments of our being when existence is
threatened beyond our ability of tolerance, we open up to ways that we have visualised, that has stayed with
us for a long time.
Sad to see parents are helping
students in this endeavor. Be it illegibility in acquiring a seat, failing in
an exam or punishment of the students’; parents are backing the students which
leads to the students’ ‘Dekhe nebo’ attitude and it is highly condemned frowned
upon, but highly practised too. The age old saying proves true even to this day
‘Spare the rod and spoil the child’ but the HC and SC lays out guidelines that
say different. If teachers lose power to punish students then it is definitely
the other way round. And I am not vying for thrashing but let’s face it school
without students holding the ears or nil downs does not feature in my memory.
Obviously sometimes teachers overdo it but cases on the other side of the
balance aren’t plain simple. And then there is politics inside the walls of every
institute of Bengal.
‘Sigh’ Ignorance was such a
bliss.
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