Today was a weird, weird day.Some things happened that make me wanna write a book about how wrong a teacher can be and how much our education/teaching pattern needs change.
I’ve been cribbing about my class teacher quite a lot lately but I think I’m totally justified. Yesterday I got my chemistry test and I knew I’d done badly. Ok,I have to admit, it was way too bad because I got like a 5 on 25 which technically is pathetic. Anyhow,me and my teacher have reached a silent agreement, he hates me and I hate him and hence he didn’t beat the shit out of me. There’s this really good kid in my class who’s a total teacher’s pet and one of the best muggers I’ve known in my entire life. He hasn’t gotten anything less than 20 on 25 in the last 3 years or something. Yesterday however, he got a dismal 16.5 . It’s pretty good my my standards but way below what he was expecting and what the teacher was expecting too.He got the hell beaten out of him and he was okay with it because he thought he deserved it. If the teacher had done that to me, I’d have protested but well forget it with this kid, he loves marks.Anyway this was all yesterday, the weird thing was to happen only today.
I reached school in the morning and sat with the same kid. After like 10 seconds, the teacher came in and asked the kid if he was fine and all, and that he was feeling really bad at having beaten him. And this kid did something totally unexpected, he started crying! I was like holy shit, stop it dude, you’re like 17 years old and you can’t cry like that in front of the whole class but he was un-consolable. He started crying even louder and then the teacher hugged him and tried to calm him down and eventually he stopped making a scene. I was surprised though. I’d thought he should be a happy soul because he gets good marks and all but turns out his life is even worse than mine. I like my life actually. All this made me think - what kind of education is this? This is nothing but torture! They’re not even letting the poor kid’s personality develop because he’s always buried under those huge books and once he got less marks, the teacher took out the frustration on him. That’s totally unfair. I’ve never really liked the kid but today, I really felt sorry for him. He hasn’t even seen anything in life because he’s been putting his heart and soul into swallowing facts and then puking them out in examinations.
I’ve already mentioned how my teacher likes to go about praising the good children. He did that again today with a 15-minute lecture on how we should try and be like this girl in the class who’s so sincere and all. I think she’s ok but all this praise has started making me hate her and now I can’t even see her face without feeling disgusted. You may call me weird or stuff but the deal with me is, I can’t listen to others getting praised in front of me. You can say shit to me, humiliate me and I’ll take it but when it comes to telling me to try to become like somebody else, I lose my mind. When the teacher said those “magic words” again and started saying how we should all be like the girl, the only word that came out of my mouth was “bloody bit**”. I feel really sorry for having said that though because it wasn’t her fault at all. So if she ever happens to read this, I’m terribly sorry and I didn’t mean what I said. If she enjoys studying and gets good marks, it’s all fine with me but the teacher really needs to do some soul searching to realize that the things he says in class can hurt people really bad. I actually thought the crying kid would commit suicide after all the bitter words the teacher said to him but it’s all good. I tried to cheer him up, I love doing that. I think I’m the source of comedy for the whole class and frankly, I don’t mind it until I give the overburdened kids a reason to smile.
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Gah, what a loser. [The teacher]
Do you folks still get beaten by your teachers despite being in 12th? If it had been in Mumbai [where I studied] the students would have already cried foul. Never found a teacher like this after tenth although my first day in college the Chemistry teacher slapped a kid for smiling. [She got booted out of the college due to complaints by many students]
Beating is only good in EXTREME cases. Actually shouldn’t be used at all.
My advice to you: Turn a Stone Cold Steve Austin and give everyone Stunners and say Ishmeet 3:16 says I just Whooped your A$$! ROFL
Yeah right. He’s pretty fat though, I don’t think I’ll be able to stun him. But he just might Batista Bomb me into the floor
And yes, we get beaten even today and nobody complains. It’s just that the studious losers think the teacher is doing it for their own good and even if someone does dare to complain, the complaint doesn’t reach the principal and the particular teacher makes life hell for you afterwards.
if ur complaint dosent reach d principal den bend ur finger
…..dats what goes on in hyderabad….d only people who complain to d principal is d lecturer when d kid kicks his butt or d studious bunch(who think v r disturbing d class’s atmosphere) ..der have been cases where d student beat up d teacher when d teacher crosses d line (some lecturers r crazy….dey go round beating up kids twice their height and muscle 
) and den d authorities hear abt it……earlier v had d student groups declaring a college bandh if their friend was beaten up but dats stopped……
der had been a case where a sir went too far and insulted d kid’s mother….this guy lost it and beat up him in d classroom…..d kid got suspended….when he met d principal d principal tried to tell dat it was d kid’s fault…..d kid lost it again and asked if he’s gotta stay quiet even when his mother gets insulted and punched d principal…the kid got kicked out eventually……dat was a case of d kid going a bit too far….i agree in his beating up d sir but not in beating d principal……
The teacher’s pet is a mugger???????? a criminal??? I think u got the word wrong or I’m unable to understand. The teacher is just another example of people who come in this field but have forgotten whats been taught in their B.Ed classes or maybe they didnt do B.Ed or maybe they had same teachers. Beating a 17 yr old!!!! I cant imagine it. Thank God in our school once we were in 9th the maximum punishment was standing outside the class or visit to Principal’s office. Such teachers are responsible for the teenagers who take to crime or depression or even suicide.
In school I was among the praised ones and frankly speaking I never enjoyed it…as all other students thought I was proud and I’d only one friend. And I used to get so embarrassed by the praise cuz I dont like being in limelight.
@Reema: No, not mugger as in criminal. He’s a person who mugs things up, so I thought such a person is called a mugger. Maybe that’s not a word.
About the teacher, well, I don’t wanna talk about him anymore. Thank God I’m done with him. And beating 17/18 year olds is no big deal in our school. It happens every other day. This particular teacher used to hit guys who got less than 10 marks after every single test. And then he’d humiliate them in front of everybody. I’ve been amongst those kids sometimes but have never really got hit. He doesn’t hit the girls though. They just get a dirty look.
When I was young, I was pretty praised too. I was a teacher’s pet and the teachers loved me but only later I realized that I never had any great friends during that time. All the people who became my friends wanted to benefit from me. When I fell big time, I realized who my true, unconditional friends were. But I don’t mind being praised.