ANGELS SUBJECTED TO
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT ?
It’s horrifying to see cases of corporate punishment getting
to the extent of causing serious injuries to innocent kids.
These little angels adorned in attire as sacred as school uniform coming back home in blood
stained shirt! What is the crime they are being punished for? The crime is
either not obeying the commands of the teacher or not being able to come up to the expectations
of the teacher. The fact is that children become soft targets of teachers’
anger and frustration , they might be carrying from home or due to some issue
dealing with their personal lives. By hitting children they also tend to
express their superiority and nourish
their false ego. Shameless, isn’t it?
There are teachers on this earth who have spent whole of
their lives teaching ,not even scolding children ,beating being out of
question! Amazingly, they are the ones who have been able to get best results
out of their students and educated them in the real sense. They are adored and
revered by their students whole life long.
Teaching is a very noble profession where teachers are given
a group of tender saplings to nurture with their affection and care and
facilitate their all round development which is possible only in a healthy conductive environment where the
child is free to think and express himself, share and be appreciated ,speak and
be applauded. A school should be a child
friendly zone inviting the child to come
every day and soak into varied innovative and engrossing activities. Scolding
and hitting should not be allowed to
disrupt the tranquility of this heaven, the abode to hundreds of innocent souls .
Kids up to class VIII are absolutely innocent and cannot be accused with anything
so serious that calls for corporal punishment. At a tender age of 3+,a child
steps out of his mother’s lap and opens his eyes to a whole new world full of
strangers .Even parents, who have not missed a sight of him all these years send the child to school ,blindly trusting
the school authorities that their child would be looked after well. In this
world of strangers, the child yearns for the warmth of affection that he has
been getting at home. He looks out for it in the eyes of his teachers and
everybody else around .He searches his parents’ love in his teachers .He
notices each and everything about them and gradually become ardent admirers of
them .They place their teachers higher than their parents and even above God.
The words of a teacher become sacred to
the child and he wants to follow the teacher word by word. Teachers are best role models for children as we tend to
acquire what we see around and children take a lot of pride in adopting their
teachers’ mannerism. This is what a teacher means to a child. This is the high
altar that a child gives to his teacher. Blessed are the teachers and the
noblest this profession, where you are dealing with the purest section of the
society and getting back loads of pure love and affection. A school is like an
oasis of goodness in this world all full of hatred and distrust.
Teachers need to value the bliss of being involved in a task as great as nation
building and make the best of every moment they spend with their students
,making this profession more worthwhile and eventful.
Dr. Monika Rastogi (an English teacher for about 20 years)