A 15 year old student stabbed his chemistry teacher in classroom. This happened in a private school in Chennai. 15-yr-old Chennai boy stabs teacher to death in classroom - The Times of India Where exactly is this nation headed? I would blame cinema as the main motive force behind such crimes at such an young age.
Shocking to see such violent crimes in school. Why he took such a drastic step of spoiling his own life along with ending another?
What prompted that 15-year old to commit such horrendous crime? All the elements that psychologically push you to extreme bitterness in life - squalid conditions at home, bullying at school, resentment and humiliation from teachers. It is unfair to judge someone based on our living conditions and upbringing. Never know what he might have gone through. What precisely shaped in his mind during those final moments of anguish. I'm sure he knows what he was doing and felt it SO RIGHT at that moment. I'm not trying to defend the murderous act but it is imperative to understand what he has been through. Not everyone addicted to television, cinema and gory video games pulls a knife and goes on a rampage. Something must have triggered inside him or culminated at that juncture in life. What we should be looking at is how to tackle this helplessness in a person for this could just be a cry for help..
It is indeed shocking and it is time we look into ourselves and the kind of values we are instilling on the children both at home and school. Apparently this boy who killed the teacher was upset that the teacher sent a note to his parents about his poor performance in school. This is a norm for any school..to give feedback to the parent...but what is more important is whether the parental response over the note drove him to murder or was there anything more deeper mental trauma of repeated humiliation in either school or home....the teacher although well - loved had a reputation of being very strict...... and the police say it was premediated...so it was not instant rage...but something that had gone on in his mind before the act.... were the parents/ school/friends blind to the warning signs???
It is terribly shocking. You can't put your finger on one thing either. It could be the pressure of studying the way it is in our system. It could be the way teachers are in our country - not all of them are capable of handling difficult children. Parents - have they played their part trying to keep the child out of stress? There is so much going wrong and its high time things start changing.
Shocking, yes. No doubt about it. But the media is projecting the incident as a symptom of a mental -illness that has affected ALL children. Why don't we just see this as a one off incident and not start blaming all kids, all teachers, all parents , all movie goers ? For every murderer, there are millions who dont take law into their hands. There are thousands of students, who, inspite of having strict teachers, turn out well too. Lets stop generalising and treat each case as an individual event.