A STUDENT ASSUALTED BY A TEACHER :PUPIL- TEACHER REALTIONSHIPS ON A DOWNHILL TREND

A STUDENT ASSUALTED BY A TEACHER :PUPIL- TEACHER REALTIONSHIPS ON A DOWNHILL TREND 8/01/2012
ODISHA NEWS:

A teacher allegedly assaulted and beaten black and blue a class ninth student of Sahadev Bidyapitha at Kharagapur village under Balichandrapur police station of Jajpur district.

The student Tushar Kanta Barik (13) of village Tigiria suffered injuries in his hand and leg after the science teacher Prafulla Kumar Das of the school allegedly badly beaten up the student after the student failed give correct answer to some questions on Wednesday. The father of the injured student Banshidhar Barik alleged before the district inspector of school and the officials of school and mass education in Bhubaneswar through toll free number that his son was assaulted by the teacher by a bamboo stick after he failed to answer some questions posed by the teacher.

Meanwhile the Circle Inspector(CI) of school in Jajpur Kapinendra Mishra has started investigation about the allegation of student's father. Parents and many guardians of the students demanded action against the teacher for dishing out a series of punishments to the students in the school.

“I was informed by the school authority that the teacher assaulted a student as he torn the answer paper in the school. I am investigating the matter”, said Mishra.
As per a national level study by the Women and Child Development programme, it is found that 69 per cent of the children face physical abuse including ‘corporal punishment’ and in government and municipal schools, it is 62 per cent that becomes a major concern. Above 53 per cent of the school children are forced one or more occasions for sexual abuse and reports suggest 21 per cent severe form of sexual abuse in schools.


Unfortunately, teacher-student relations too have deteriorated over the years as per the shocking reports that come every second day. Why is this happening? Is it yet another gift of the modern age, which boasts of scientific technology and advanced economic order? The answer to all these queries would be in affirmative if we retrospect. Where what has went wrong is beyond anybody’s comprehension.



There must be many more such incidents that did not show up in the public sphere. As education becomes more and more commercialized, teachers are bound by targets that they must deliver and students see them more as service providers. Though those teachers who abuse their students can never be excused, it is time to do pick out these bad apples who give a bad name to education and ponder about a way to mend these relations.

SIDDHARTHA SHANKAR MISHRA,
BUREAU CHIEF, THESE DAYS,
ODISHA