Sir,
I took a day off from my work to help my son for his proponed SA II examination. After a long and continuous coaching session, I watched a news channel during lunch. I was stunned and could not swallow food for some time on reading the FLASH NEWS. A student stabbed a teacher to death. Throughout the day after that it was only one question that urged on my mind. What could be the real reason for it? There could be various reasons, but why does this happen to a teacher by her own student? Why did the child do it to his own teacher?
I wanted to highlight few observations of mine.
“Recent trend on assessing teachers role to a very large extent”. No doubt teachers are next parents. Schools are not just a place to communicate information but a place where a child has to be developed a complete human being. When can this happen? Are we still following the Gurukul systems where a child at the age of 7 is entrusted to a Guru for 14 years away from his/ her family ?
Do the children of these day learn like skills only from school?
There is an information overload on children. At the age of 5 the entire family appreciates and encourages the child on imitating its favourite artists stunt action. The media encourage children in the age group of 5 to 10 in singing songs and dancing for song which poisons their thought process. To its height, murder and killing is shown as a quite common action of a human being like walking and sleeping in almost movies. The favorite hero performs it and justifies it.
The term ‘Kolai’ is used like any other conjunction or an adjective in every song, speech, dialogue, conversation and jokes.
O.K. Is then the incident just another news for every one?
For God’s sake it should not be. All elders are responsible for the child’s action. Aren’t we?
Mrs. Subha Sriram,
Nanganallur
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