Not Foreboding Well!

Never before guardians were so up in arms against punishment meted out to their wards in school as now. Supreme court has prohibited physical punishment which include caning ,ear or hair pulling, standing up on the bench, kneel-down outside class room etc. Marked rise in incidences of corporal punishments reported from different states triggered the court verdict. Notwithstanding this verdict, however, this age old practice of yielding corporal punishments in the above forms still continue in most of the academic institutions. However, teachers who have to enforce discipline in class have their say too. Some times there’re so unruly students in classes who cannot be tamed simply by counseling or persuasion. They need stricter measures which make them behave properly at least in the larger interest of the students. But it’s no denying the fact some teachers are temperamentally so rude and irritable that they fail to hold patience and take to punishing the errant student physically even at the drop of a hat. Mercifully, they are minority but are unfortunately at the root of such judgment pronounced by the court prohibiting corporal punishment in its minimal form. Now guardians too have become very sensitive on this issue. Ours are nuclear families where children are born and brought up in utmost love and affection. So parents can’t bear with their children being physically punished for their misdeeds, may it be by their teachers. Students too feel hurt even when teachers rebuke them for their benefit. It’s resulted in increasingly deteriorating relation between the teachers and the taught even from school. It doesn’t forebode well for our society.