It is horrifying to note that a student has knifed his teacher to death for making adverse notes on his performance in his school diary.
In recent times I notice that the teachers are advised not to scold the children in private or in the class as it would hurt their self-esteem;not to inform parents in a strong language(it is another matter that many a parent do not even look at the diary) ;not to rush through syllabus;give children freedom to study as they want;parents advise teachers not to give home work; allow students to mix freely with the opposite sex;school managements do not stand up for good Teachers for not standing for the parents will affect admissions;students and parents alike regard teaching and Teachers as commodity and consumer laws apply to them.
These are a few of the symptoms of our educational system.
Unless the system is rectified it is not possible to prevent accidents of this nature.
Unfortunately this is not possible in the present society-please read my blog on this subject under Education.
Having said this, let us not get carried away too much as this action by a student is not indicative of all students’ behaviour.
The possible solution is for parents to be more involved with the children’s education and the teaching of moral values by being one of moral character.
Teaching is not a mere Profession, it is a way of Life which needs men of character and sacrifice.
Teachers need to be more of parents than parents themselves.
I have seen a TV Reality Show(Neeya Naana,STAR Vijay), where a Teacher commented on a girl in a very vulgar way.
How does one expect discipline from students when you have teachers consuming liquor and ogling at girl students and lady Teacher eloping with her student?
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CHENNAI: A Class IX student of a Chennai school stabbed his teacher to death in a classroom on Thursday morning. Police quoted the 15-year-old boy (TOI is withholding his identity as he is a minor) as saying that he was under pressure after the teacher repeatedly sent adverse remarks to his parents.
Shock and fear gripped St Mary‘s Anglo-Indian Higher Secondary School on Armenian Street in Parrys, a middle-class neighbourhood, as the student, son of a customs clearing agency employee, repeatedly stabbed his Hindi teacher Uma Maheshwari.
The 41-year-old woman, who taught science and Hindi for classes IX and X, was in a classroom on the first floor, awaiting students for a special class at 11.40am when the boy attacked her. “He walked in with a knife wrapped in paper,” a student told TOI. “He stabbed her first in the neck, then thrice more in the chest and abdomen.”
A police officer said the juvenile offender was worried that he would not be promoted to class X. “He said he was upset that his teacher kept complaining to his father about his underperformance in Hindi. His father had met the teacher last Monday,” the officer said. Investigators said the boy bought the knife from a shop near his house and took it to school on Tuesday and Wednesday too. He was waiting for an opportunity to attack her. “He kept the knife in his bag, waiting for an opportunity. He couldn’t attack the teacher as she was always with some students the last couple of days. On Thursday, she was alone in a classroom when he stabbed her,” the police officer said.
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Unfortunately if we don’t overreact , this might become a fashion where students will scare the teachers threatening them with what could happen if teachers decide to criticize. This should absolutely be not allowed. Some kind of exemplary punishment should be awarded which should deter others to not commit this kind of dastardly act.
Agreed.Point is that mere noise would not do.
Parents must ensure that children behave themselves and teachers be Teachers.
The fine line between freedom and discipline must be imparted to students.
Honestly speaking it is the mistake done by the elders in our society.parents always talking about the foreign students about gunning down the teachers in US or in UK.This resulted in changing attitude among the students in India.1.Our Country Education is class one compare to other countries.This elders always talk all nonsense about the Foreign Universities.more over our education system must be Changed a lot as per our Country System,not to the European standards.In our country Universities were much older we have history 5000 years back.For example you take,in all our text books we read only foreign idiots history or you take chemistry or physics you find only foreign scientists,not even one scientists from our country.Earlier when i was a student we were only 24 students in the class,but now it is more 60 to 70 students in a class,this to be blamed the Government,you bribe the education minister you get more permission to admit the students this to be stopped immediately the whole of India.In India we must have a common pattern.Even some times teachers couldn’t take individual attention on the students.I BLAME THE WHOLE SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRY.NO COMMON LAW.FOR EACH RELIGION DIFFERENT LAWS.THIS IS THE FATE OF OUR COUNTRY.INDIA
True.As I have explained in my blog on Ranking, it is difficult to change the system now.
The only counter is to build character and good behaviour by elders to set an example.