Immediate Interests

The incident that took place at Xavier’s, Durgapur yesterday, speaks of how Educational Institutions in Durgapur have degraded over time. Reading in a college where a gang-fight is pretty common, I have started hating the mob-mentality strongly. A mob can never fight for a good cause, or bring solutions. What happened with Devasy yesterday is indeed unfortunate, but he was awaiting such a mishap. He may be a good administrator(some say, I don’t know, or can’t remember anything good he has done innovatively for the school, except for banning plastic bags inside campus!), but has the worst behavior there could be. He lacks decency, and isn’t farsighted. People who know him will agree with me. That isn’t my headache…people who live by the sword, die by them; it happens again and again. As it was featured in Star Ananda news channel, the teachers were worried about the school’s reputation going down the drains owing to the guardians and students.

According to some teachers, parents come and request time and again to tutor their sons, and even though they have no intentions of teaching, they are left with no choices but to provide tuitions when guardians fall to their feet. Partly it is true.

Leave out the extraordinarily gifted boys and the failing population of the class. For rest of them (which comprises most of the class), who would really feel the urge to take tuitions if taught adequately and carefully in class? Once the craze of reading in tuition classes had affected me in 7th standard, and when I realized that the teacher at school taught better than the one I joined, I left the tuition classes half way!

I have known teachers of the same school, some who have never tutored privately, and have sternly driven out boys seeking tuition from them; and someone, who has never tutored boys of the sections he taught in school, and has always maintained the same effort in private classes as in school. All cannot be as virtuous as them, I agree, but they shouldn’t, at least, turn their backs when such situations arise for students, where they are just half guilty.

Fear without love and respect can only bring out hatred. What left me disturbed wasn’t the incident, but the reaction of the ‘senior’ students of the same school. Whatever happens, they would be worst affected. Alas, they don't hold the maturity to realize that.  Parents, teachers, students, each group is so much disturbed at the other, resulting in the demise of modern-education, thus!

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