Teacher

Without Teachers Life would have no Class

Owe a lot to my Teachers. Have been lucky enough to have meet so many since I changed my school thrice. Just a day after Teachers Day on 5th September, came across an article of a boy who died after falling from his college.

Prima fascia the Police have registered the case as accidental death. They are investigating if it is suicide. The boys parents are however begging to differ. They call it suicide. The reason for suicide being that the boy was constantly subjected to insults and ridicule by one of his Professors. I am providing the link to the fathers statement at the end of this blog.

It brought back memories of my own experience when in Secondary School. I have a physical problem of pronouncing heavy words, particularly when using Hindi. Our Hindi teacher always subjected me to torture for three years which I was under her. Always poking fun, always picking on me. No it was just not me she used to pick up on, there were many others too. I remember one boy crying in the class, not able to bear this constant picking. After I passed out from school, I even heard that she had a bad experience with a student Suresh Acharya and in the tussle her hand got fractured to the extent of having a rod inserted  and she had to live with it till she was alive. God rest her soul in peace.

Not everybody can take things in stride. There were other teachers, who maintained my sanity during that period. Unnecessarily being called to the teachers room, insulting in front of all other teachers, but the others counseled me well and really appreciate them.

Here too… something similar has happened, I am attaching a link to the boys fathers request for taking action against the said teacher. There are such people everywhere, the need of hour is for the administration to see that sanity is restored and such incidences do not take place.

In the meanwhile, my heartfelt condolences to the parents and family of Prasad Bagaria. They are not wrong in highlighting this picking because a Teacher should also remember not all students are same, but should be treated same.

Statement by Prasad Bagarias father.