It's sometimes difficult to decide what is right and what is wrong? What to do and what not to do? and it's even much difficult when we have to decide and do right away on no time. The same thing happened today. I may be taking this small issue as a vague or may be I am right to think about this way now, I still can't decide but what I did was what I thought right at that moment.
After two days of training I went to school with enthusiasm that I am going to make them learn in a new way and had also planned a game shared us by Christine Stone at the training as I already knew that today they are not going to be in the mood of reading lessons as today we were scheduled 'Tihar Special program' and 'Farewell Program' for the S.L.C. graduates of 2069. But when I reached school the scenario was different. Everybody was busy. Every teacher, every student preparing for the stage, doing dance and singing rehearsals. As there was no any sign of taking class, I started helping students for their speech and anchoring. Then, finally the program began with few student for whom the program was actually designed for I mean the ex-students. Those students who were present also were not really concerned about the program. They were just siting in the stage and gossiping with each other no matter who is doing what and who is speaking about what? But at the mid of the program all of them arrived and again same thing happened. They were sitting infront and gossiping and they were not taking notice of what their juniors had prepared for them. And I was really surprised to see that none of the teachers were responding. The juniors learn from their seniors and if they do that our juniors will also follow that. I didn't know what to do announced from the stage to them not to talk at the program but have a look on what their juniors had prepared for them as I knew that it took couple of weeks for them to rehearse and they had put lot of their effort and time for that. So this was not getting out right on me.
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| Grade eight students Lasata and Preeti anchoring the program |
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| Grade eight students Ashish and Kiran (speaking infront for the first time) giving farewell speech |
Then, the program formally ended and our student had organized a concert where at the beginning only few of the students were dancing and Seetu and I were also requested to dance. In the beginning I was not in a mood to dance but later I found that some of the students were hesitating to dance, so to boost them up I along with Seetu started dancing. Dancing, is what we can say has no any mistake but in the context, where the students and even teachers think that dancing infront of all and in a remix songs is undisciplined is a problem. And at that moment I felt like stopping because I could see some eyes staring at us in such a disgraceful way, some of the people backbiting about our activity, then again an instant thought popped up on my mind that this is the time to bring some change in the attitude so let's not stop and we kept on dancing. After sometime a group of girls followed us and after sometime there were so many girls dancing with us. And one of the girls of grade nine came to Seetu and said, "miss I think you should be disciplined".
Did we do the right at that moment? or we just went against our culture. I am still not getting the answer. But at that moment I thought it right and even my students enjoyed it. So I am happy that I brought smile in the face of some of the girls whom I had never seen smiling all these months.
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