Teachers trooped in to the Morning Prayer assembly belatedly and the principal called them a ‘blot’ .
The children were asked to applaud the Statement.
The teachers were upset and gheraoed the Principal, thereby confirming his statement.
Instead of feeling sorry for not being punctual the teachers say that the Principal should not have ridiculed them in Public view.
If , as a Teacher, you do not behave properly in Public as befits a Teacher, you deserve to be reprimanded in Public.
Character and Discipline are the hall-mark of a Teacher, not trade unionism.
Story:
A day after the national inter college felicitated its teachers on the occasion of Teachers day, it was ridicule and humiliation that they got to face at the hands of the college principal Uma Shankar Singh. Teachers were not only ridiculed by principal but also referred to as a “blot” for a fault as negligible as turning up late. While this could have still been tolerated by teachers, what agitated them to the hilt was the fact that principal asked the students to applaud his “objectionable” comments and it all happened in the full view of the morning assembly.
What followed were unruly scenes at the college campus. Not only the teachers took offence of the principal’s comments and got agitated, students too got involved and started stone-pelting. The tension could be defused only after the police was called.
It all began at the morning assembly, right after the prayer session was over and before students could sing the national anthem. As soon as the students were asked to stand-in-ease, principal of the college Uma Shankar Singh got hold of the mike and started addressing the teachers who were seen entering the college gate as a “blot”. He announced on the mike, “yeh hain kalank number ek…taali baja kar inka swagat kijiye (here comes the blot on the college…welcome him).”
I find there seems to me a subtle difference between Teaches you at School and the Lecturers and Professors at the College.
I retain till date awe respect and regards for mt School teachers and for College teachers it is a friendliness slightly tinged with a sort of mild respect.
If one were to go by qualifications , it should be more for the College professors, for they were MAs and Phds, while my school teachers were BAs (Bachelor of Arts) and in some case L.T.(Licentiate in Teaching, which is replaced by B.Ed. in India).
Be it as may, let me recall some of my school teachers first.
I had Mr.Srinivasa Iyengar,who use to take English and Mathematics till IV Form.(equivalent to x Standard now).
What ever English I can boast of is because of him(I studied in a small place,Srivilliputhur,Tamil Nadu,India).
If you do not answer a question, you are rapped in the knuckle with the duster.
If you the ‘=’ is not aligned for all the rows in Mathematics, you are again given a rap.
He used to have a table for the system of awarding marks while correcting answer papers and he will display it in the Class.
If some one were to point out that he has not been awarded marks as per the table he will award it and say ‘sorry’
Not only that.
He was a Religious Man, an Iyengar.He will come to school with the Religious Mark ‘Naamam‘
As soon as he settles in his chair, he will look at every one’s face for the Religious mark, either Vibuthi,Naamam or in the case of the Girls Kungumam and if they do not have it , he will ask them to get out and ask them to go Home and come with the mark immediately.
I recall one instance, when I was studying in the fifth Form.
I was in the Class without vibuthi.
Srinivasa Iyengar went out side the School into the road, which was visible fromour class room, dipped his third Right Finger into Bull’s droppings , came to the Class and applied it to on my forehead!
The special treatment to me was because my father was the Head Master!
The way he used to tech English Grammar and din it into our heads is some thing to be experienced.
As a matter of fact, most of my blogs on ‘English grammar’ is inspired by him and some of the definitions and explanations are his.
I aha Tamil Teacher , Muthurakku Konar, who once describing ‘Kannagi‘ of Silappathikaaram,a Tamil Classic, said’kannagi was a woman who was untouched by a Man other than her Husband,not like Cinema actresses who get touched by every one , form the make Up Man onwards”
Surprising that The Principal had not noticed it or the others (adults(are there adults in the picture?)!
The photographer should have seen it while shooting or at least while processing.
However, the reactions of the parents in disproportionate.
Refers to:
Child Defaced.
It’s a school picture that makes jaws drop at just one glance.
More than a dozen students in Eileen Diaz’s Second Grade Class at Sawgrass Elementary are grouped together in three neat rows.
Some are smiling, some are not and one doesn’t even appear human.
Right smack in the middle of the photo is a cartoon-like head placed on the shoulders of a boy where his face would be.
People who saw it called it “offensive” and “degrading”. Parent Gabriella Cans, whose son is just a toddler, said she felt sorry for the boy and believes the image is humiliating.
The school’s own principal didn’t even see the picture until she got a copy along with all the other parents who ordered prints on Friday afternoon. Her assistant told me she was also outraged and ordered a new picture be taken this week.
David Claussen and his wife own Broward County Pictures which they say has been in the school picture-taking business for 37 years.
He didn’t want to speak on camera, but off camera said the last thing he ever wanted to do was offend. In fact, he thought it was odd himself.
As he tells it, after the picture was taken a liaison with the Parent Teacher’s Association, that helped organize the photo shoot at the school, notified them that two of the students pictured needed to be removed because their parents did not sign a consent form.
Claussen said he was able to use the photo editing softwareAdobe Photoshop to lift one of the kids out, but had explained to them that there was a problem with the second student. He was sitting in the front row, right in the middle.
He showed me the notes he had written down on a white piece of paper as the pair discussed what to do. He said he would have gladly come out there to reshoot the image. Instead there was talk about putting a star over his face and then, he said, the P.T.A. asked him to place a smiley face.
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