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”
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