How appropriate is timing for teachers’ strike?
Every year, after the SSLC and PUC exam timetables are out, another declaration comes out. And that would be about the teachers threatening to boycott the valuation. Every year teachers keep threatening the government that they would boycott PUC valuation if their demands are not met.
As a result of this protest that happens sometimes there are occasions where the results have been delayed and the students have had to face dire consequences because of this. This year too teachers are using the same threat against the government trying to blackmail the system.
They are holding students to ransom while trying to get the government to listen and fulfill their demands. In this tug of war between teachers and government, students will again face an uncertain future as far as their results are concerned.
Teachers have all the rights to hold a protest to get the government to listen to them. Teachers are the architects of the society. Future of a country depends on the teachers. Hence it is not a crime for teachers to demand their rights.
Government has to respond to their demands immediately. They have to get down to demonstrating the protest because the government has failed to act on its promises given to them in past incidents. Some of the main demands are about changed summer holiday schedule cancellation, correction of wage disparity and speeding up the promotions that have been delayed.
But the modus-operandi they using to fulfill their demands is objectionable. This is like resting the rifle on students’ shoulders to take a shot at the government.
This entire act as an impending thread that they would do in the future of the students if the government doesn't listen to them.
Teachers’ collectives say the government will not respond to them if they take up protest during other occasions.
And there are some who defend this decision saying when other organisations wage protest even the public are put to inconvenience during demonstrations and roadblocks, and all those have some level of difficulty and discomfort to others, and that is a natural phenomenon on such occasions.
Teachers are not like other professionals. Soldiers, doctors, police and teachers have very specific tasks.
What happens if soldiers decide to go on strike with their demands to be fulfilled when a war has been declared?
In all the categories teachers have the most superior space because they are the ones who shape the future and dreams of soldiers, doctors and all other professionals.
Since their life is worth emulating they have to think many a times before getting down to protest against the government.
How appropriate is it to do in the life and future of students for the fault of the government?
The very teachers who would have shaped the future of the students all through the year with great hard work, would have ruined their the future by such a irresponsible act at the end of the year.
Would it not be painful for the students to know that their future have to go through this hardship because of their own teachers? How would the teachers then says there on students?
This does not mean that teachers should not protest for their demands. They have to find alternate routes to get their demands fulfilled by the government.
they have to get the support of other organisations to bring pressure on the government. Teachers are blessed with knowledge, so nobody has to teach them how to get the government to listen to their demands and fulfill their mutual discussions and due considerations.
At the same time mobile one considers the facilities and benefits given to teaching profession they are not too bad after all, as against other professions.
But if one is to take up a survey of the standard of teachers in this state many shocking truths will come out from that.
The lack of expertise, knowledge, aptitude, talent and passion for the profession would be visibly obvious across the board.
Teachers who do justice to their profession are very very rare. This is one of the main reasons why our standard of education has fallen abysmally low.
The contribution of undeserving teachers very huge in Government schools closing down one after another.
This is the right time to even introspect and see what contribution they have made to the profession they got into.
There is responsibility of the government as well as far as the teachers the concerned.
The government that responds to the demands of drivers and doctors as soon as possible has always been very careless about the demands of teachers.
It seems to think ESMA can be invoked to shut the voices of teachers. This attitude of the government may have also enraged the teachers. After having a short some action and fulfillment of demands when teachers declared the protest during valuation time the government wakes up only the next time around when the teachers declared the protest or threaten to boycott revaluation process, and this would be one year apart.
The government has to make an honest effort to fulfill all the promises it made to teachers during the last protest. Government should not try to silence the teachers by invoking ESMA. Instead they should immediately coming on meeting and listen to the demands of the teachers.
If this is not done, students will suffer as a result of this never ending tug of war between teachers and government.
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Two injuries, one DNF, a DQ as India end messy World Relays campaign
Gaborone (Botswana) (PTI): Amoj Jacob and Ragul Kumar got injured during the men's 4x400m and 4x100 races respectively as India ended their World Athletics Relays campaign in disappointment on the second day of competitions here on Sunday.
The Indian camp had high hopes of making the 2027 World Championships in the men's 4x400m relay but the team did not finish (DNF) the race as Jacob suffered cramps and pulled out of the race after taking the baton from the first leg runner Dharamveer Choudhary. Rajesh Ramesh and Vishal TK were to run in the third and fourth legs.
Those teams which could not qualify for the 2027 Beijing World Championships by reaching the final round of each of the six relay events on Saturday were given another chance in the second qualification round on Sunday.
The top two teams in each of the two heats (in all six relay events) booked the Beijing ticket on Sunday.
India will now have to try and qualify for the World Championships through the Top Lists of the World Athletics, which is a long and tedious process.
In the men's 4x100m race, third leg runner Ragul Kumar fell down the track after failing to hand over the baton inside the exchange zone to fourth leg runner Gurindervir Singh, which clearly showed the lack of coordination among the runners.
Harsh Santosh Raut and Animesh Kujur ran the first two legs.
The Indian quartet was disqualified and Kumar was seen being taken away from the Field of Play with the help of the volunteers.
It was a comedy of errors in the case of the women's 4x100m race, which saw the baton being dropped during an exchange between first leg runner Tamanna and second runner Nithya Gandhe, though the Indians finished the race in 53.09 seconds.
Gandhe started running quite a distance, but after realising that the baton was not in her hand, she turned and ran back to pick it up.
The only silver-lining for the Indian contingent was the national record time in the mixed 4x100m relay race, though the quartet of Ragul Kumar, Nithya Gandhe, Animesh Kujur and Sneha SS finished sixth in heat number two with a time of 41.35 seconds, bettering the previous national mark of 42.30 seconds set in March in Chandigarh.
The mixed 4x400m relay quartet of Theerthesh P Shetty, Kumari Saloni, Nihal William and Rashdeep Kaur ended at fifth in heat number one with a time of 3 minutes and 19.40 seconds.
On Saturday, all the five Indian relay teams had failed to make it to the respective final rounds and thus missed out on the 2027 World Championships berths.
