There are many more laws in USA, Wow! this time it is an imitation on children-related laws. Kudos! to the National Commission on Child Rights Protection. I just wonder why the responsible members could not made an indepth study? This is ills-plaguing and I am sure none of the members of the commission are chosen from the teaching community again this time. How would it sound if I say Indian soldiers sent to war without weapons?
I am a teacher for past 10 years. I have an oceanic depth of love for my students and so are the millions of Indian teachers. Those teachers who award corporal punishments certainly need such laws. But there are so many other clauses restricting and curbing his academic freedom. The laws treats teachers as if they are criminals probably they could do nothing with the responsible teacher training bodies. It speaks ill of the urgency in which the national commission has been constituted, operated and soon came out with expected pre-mature conclusions keeping in view the isolated cases.
Children are, I believe the most magnificient creation of God. Today, they look at teachers as their equals or mere facilitators. Children by nature being so joyous and active particularly when they are with their friends resort to innumerable ways of childish and mischievous behaviour. Sometimes, it is dangerous for their own safety. They no more listen to these law-threatened teachers due to their selfless and pure nature. Had there been something to revamp the so-called teacher-training bodies which claim to impart so much in terms of student-psychology that B Ed is declared to be an essential qualification without which an incumbent is summarily rejected to be a teacher. Is the entire spectrum of teacher training not responsible for such teachers who behave wild with the divine children?
In the intellectual transaction of teaching and learning, the teachers and learners have a very far different relationship than how narrowly it is interpretated and intruded by the national commission.
Millions of teachers' speechlessness is sympathesized.
(it is a comment given by me on the issue raised at www.igovernment.in published on 13 dec 07)