Why this kolaveri...........

shail
I read this news this morning.. absoloutely shocked!!!...the youth of today haven't been taught to accept being reprimanded in the positive way.. and I truly solely and wholly blame parents and grandparents who are overly protective/ overly ambitious (their kid has to be on the top) and they instill a sense of infallibility in the child and the kid grows up thinking he is a gift to mankind...
very often I've met moms who would accept that their child could ever do any wrong and is he did then it must have been someone else who provoked and instigated!!! on parents teachers meeting day I've seen parents speak with such scant respect to the teachers so what respect will child have for his teachers???..
parents are a role model.. if we don't correct/ reprimand/ scold our child when they do wrong then they go about in this world thinking they are fault - less...
K

 

I too read that news in the morning news paper and quite shocked.. Is there any real motive for the killing??? I did not quite understand that..

The teacher lost her life for no mistake of hers.. (even though if she punished him / insulted him also .. killing her can never be justified at any level..)

My heart goes to the boy also, I do not think a 9th Std student is a real baddie and can become a murderer... Whenever he realises his act .. will he able to forgive himself??? and Can ever lead a normal life?? Or does the society allow him to lead a normal life afterwards.. will he be accepted by his people.. will be there any1 to atleast share his feelings /emotions when he realises his act???

(Do not think me wrong.. I unable to digest that jsut a 9th Std boy can do like this at all???)

Really, what is making these children to go to that extent!! we the society & parents failed to teach them morale properly and the kind of stuff that is being propogated in the media as heroism.. (even earlier also such things were there?? but is it the easy accessability / the hype and quantity of such stuff....)

While thinking all this .. Where we are all heading i did not understand??

And also the teacher's family.... For No mistake of theirs.. do they need to pay this heavy price???

Many issues .. unanswered...

Glad atleast you made an attempt to brought this issue in this forum.. and atleast.. we can think and do something in around us to the possible extent...

 

Dear Shail,

What a wonderful take on this song. And a sad subject but a relevant one Shail. Yes teachers being reprimanded for scolding children? Now which teacher in that school or the surrounding ones will dare correct a kid, fearing the same fate as her collegue ?

i agree with u, when u say, we pamper our child, get him an i pad and other gadjets at an early age, bcs we dont have the time for them, to teach them right from wrong. in our times, in the sixties when i studied, we were mortally scared of our teachers, and we were caned many a times by the prioncipal, and we never went home and complained, we were innocent then, the kids of today are spoilt bcs of the exposure to so many things that we were not exposed to then.Who knows we may have turned out like this kid if we were to study today.

Yes moral science was a great subject , we learnt so many things.

Sad state of affairs, shail, my heart bleeds for the family of that teacher, and for the quality of the kids today.

Regards

kamal

 

I too very shocked to hear the news.

I really worry about the future of my kid who has to live and to find a better way as his future.

Yes, we were compelled to respect our teachers but what the society is imposing on today's kids...

 

Shocking is a mild word....it is incomprehable that a 15 year old premediates and carries a knife to school and stabs the teacher in front of other students... just because she was "strict"....She was just doing her job...her job was to give feedback to the parents about the childs performance..and the boy didnt like it. Whose fault is this - the boy's, the parents or the teacher or the education system as such? There definitely would have signals and warning signs of his violent streak ...didnt anyone notice?

In my daughters school, ...normally a topper...this boy had scored only 80% in the semester exam and the father slapped him in front of the girls, teachers and other parents who had come for PTA. The teacher had to intervene and she reprimanded the father for his behaviour...but the boy was totally humiliated and since that day he became this quiet withdrawn child and his grades went steadily down. We give importance to wrong things...we cannot blame the teacher..coz she was doing her duty of reporting to the parent... much depends on the reaction of the parents...what did they say or do that drove this boy to bring a knife to school? Did the school have counsellors? Even if it did have counsellors, were they approachable? So many questions.... in hindsight we can say what is wrong but are helpless to do anything about it....