| Touch like his father's
who sported a beard and wore glasses. This is again an example of the din created
disproportionate to the cause, if there was a compelling cause! The
Message.
The message to the parents is to understand that such incidents
of unfair treatment, punishment and humiliation are not uncommon in schools in
general, and that they have a disastrous result. The victims develop antipathy
towards the school and also towards his studies to ruin his aspirations and prospects
for a pursuit of good education., and that the children, however badly hurt, avoid
mentioning the incidents to the parents for fear of additional victimisation. Parents
should therefore discreetly pre-warm the children of such incidents of injustice.
This will encourage the children to reveal these incidents to the parents for
a balanced discussion, which can then be extended, if need be, with
the school management respectfully and fairly with the assurance that the intention
is to assist both, the child and the school. Only those who are wrongly punished
and hurt will have the confidence of discussing the incidents with their parents.
This will enable parents to protect their children from the risk of the children
developing an antipathy towards the pursuit of education. At
a private picnic of friends studying in a primary school, there was a game-session
of making up a good story. This is from the author's own experience. One came
up with a spontaneous story in which the bad guys were the teachers and the heroes
the pupils in a fictional plot involving a school. Bandits had attacked the school
to get after the bad teachers. Obviously, from the tell-tale signs, it is also
a story of a victim of a school-antipathy. He himself never knew that while he
was spinning his fictional story he was revealing the true story of his antipathy
which even he did not grasp. The ending is that he veered his way out while others
found theirs into a secondary school. The author has reason
to be still remembering the fictional story. He landed in a trouble when he repeated
it during the dinner time that evening at home. That was way
back in 1946. Have things changed with regard to the antipathy…?.....Much?
Then the author wouldn't be mentioning the story! | 
