The lesson that a teacher learned!

Dads and moms are loved and praised

Friends and lovers are loved and missed

FB transfers the feelings which are never told on face!

Teachers are condemned and stoned

Challenged, mocked and kicked

FB is a school for teachers to face what others teach!
            

With all love and respect to my students and to the student community, to all who were ever students, to all of you, I want to say firmly one thing, a teacher is not the biggest criminal in the society.

            After a long day in school, when I open my FB account, there are so many posters ready to welcome me. People of all ages and professions and status participate in this game of demeaning and ridiculing and educating a teacher. And me I am one of those who you try to teach her lessons. Thanks anyway, as I trust that you all have the best of intentions when you do that.

            “Top 12 Dialogues of a teacher” is one of the most popular mockeries that you use to educate us to have a better dialogue with students. But why don’t you all understand that no such dialogue is needed to teach our subject? Do you think that the teacher switches on herself like a tape recorder to deliver these dialogues? Just imagine the scenes of the classroom which calls for such dialogues and why not make quotes out of them too? And have you ever thought and found out why a tuition teacher never faces the same attack?

            And where are the Dads and Moms who are the most ambitious adults who abuse the kids verbally and physically? “Top 12 dialogues of a parent” “Top 12 dialogues of a child” etc will make so many people homeless and orphans, or childless, right?

            I don’t want to give you answers for these questions. Intelligent as you are, can find out the answers yourself.

            I never knew that the world would’ve been heaven if not for the teachers who change little angels to big demons. And I will never understand why the precious children are still brought to hells called schools and put them under the tyranny of a monster called teacher!

            Newspapers and TV have kept a permanent camera focusing the teacher, and unfortunately I am one. I see only two options. Either I must stop watching TV and newspaper and delete my FB account. Or I must quit my job as a teacher.

            If ever I decide to quit my job and start doing something worthwhile, if I ever live my life without being branded, just because I am a teacher, I will remain eternally grateful to all of you, the journalists, the media people, especially FB which serves as a mouthpiece to everyone to say anything.

              As I tell my students, to understand the love and value of a teacher, you must be a good student. And I am sure that there are some people out there, adults or students, who’ve never stoned the teachers, nor approved of others stoning. I don’t know how to call it in English..in Malayalam we call it ‘Guruthwam’, the sense of respect to the Gurus, the ability to see them without judgment.

             Big thanks to those of my students who loved me, overcoming the instinct to judge and brand me. When I walk out of my job, all that I carry home will be the understanding tolerating love that we shared in the classroom.