Me and my friend were walking on the road and stopped by to have a kulfi. It was just a regular routine to spend some 10 bucks on it. While we were eating a bike stopped by near the kulfi shop. A girl jumped from the bike seat, she was wearing those school pinafores that any school girl would complain of wearing and the long hair tied in an irritating manner. But all these sound nice now and it looks apt for a school girl. But then, so relentlessly I used to make a fuss about tying my hair in a particular way. Now when I look back, without all those PT teachers coming behind us for not wearing ribbons, growing extra large nails and for wearing improper clothes and for not polishing our shoes and without all the well designed yet somehow badly stitched school uniforms we would not be what we are today. We would not have learnt the basic manners or discipline that is required before you start walking the road by yourselves.
Why would wearing uniform, or polishing shoes or cutting nails or tying hair matter sooo much to the school??Think and see without uniforms we would have started to differentiate or classify people based on their dressing, polishing shoes might make us look clean and tidy, tying hair makes us less worry about it while our main focus in school is to study and interact with people and we are still kids to start worrying about the way we look or behave.
When did I realise all this? Not when I came to college but when I actually saw a 10 year old girl worried about what she wore, how her hair was tied or what food she took to college and more worried about not having a facebook account. Do you think the girl is spoilt? Yes, not only her, but her entire school. Her entire school considers eating sandwich is cool over sambar rice, and leaving their hair free is the best style instead of neatly tying it up. And short clothes mean adapting to the trend and pants are out of fashion!!!!!!! These are not the perspectives of a college going kid but a 10 year old who is not even allowed to go to a shop without being escorted by elders. Do we have to blame these kids?? Definitely not, but their school! Why is the school even allowing such things? The kids who are not able to adjust to this trend do suffer from an inferiority complex and are unable to change because the family they come from might not open up so much though they might be rich. And we also can’t call those parents not open minded or label them orthodox. It definitely is not connected with being orthodox or anything of that kind. In this case they are just being very smart and knowledgeable by making their kids understand that this is not the age for them to worry about such things cos they were not like this and still they grew up well. Times might change but a schooling system never should. Whatever it is, a child is just a child. Probably his grasping power or ability to understand might increase, that does not mean he can directly start working and earning. He needs to act according to his age, though the media might not be of much help to all this and they might be the main enzyme for their growth, school should take up this responsibility in teaching them what is good and what is not and treat them just as kids with punishments when required and parents should grant the school with the permission to take care of their kids instead of unnecessarily interfering.
Ignorance is a bliss and ignorance while in school is the biggest gift any kid can get, only then when you step out to face the real world in college you see the world new, fresh and learn a whale of things because what we think we are in school are not what we really are.
Why would wearing uniform, or polishing shoes or cutting nails or tying hair matter sooo much to the school??Think and see without uniforms we would have started to differentiate or classify people based on their dressing, polishing shoes might make us look clean and tidy, tying hair makes us less worry about it while our main focus in school is to study and interact with people and we are still kids to start worrying about the way we look or behave.
When did I realise all this? Not when I came to college but when I actually saw a 10 year old girl worried about what she wore, how her hair was tied or what food she took to college and more worried about not having a facebook account. Do you think the girl is spoilt? Yes, not only her, but her entire school. Her entire school considers eating sandwich is cool over sambar rice, and leaving their hair free is the best style instead of neatly tying it up. And short clothes mean adapting to the trend and pants are out of fashion!!!!!!! These are not the perspectives of a college going kid but a 10 year old who is not even allowed to go to a shop without being escorted by elders. Do we have to blame these kids?? Definitely not, but their school! Why is the school even allowing such things? The kids who are not able to adjust to this trend do suffer from an inferiority complex and are unable to change because the family they come from might not open up so much though they might be rich. And we also can’t call those parents not open minded or label them orthodox. It definitely is not connected with being orthodox or anything of that kind. In this case they are just being very smart and knowledgeable by making their kids understand that this is not the age for them to worry about such things cos they were not like this and still they grew up well. Times might change but a schooling system never should. Whatever it is, a child is just a child. Probably his grasping power or ability to understand might increase, that does not mean he can directly start working and earning. He needs to act according to his age, though the media might not be of much help to all this and they might be the main enzyme for their growth, school should take up this responsibility in teaching them what is good and what is not and treat them just as kids with punishments when required and parents should grant the school with the permission to take care of their kids instead of unnecessarily interfering.
Ignorance is a bliss and ignorance while in school is the biggest gift any kid can get, only then when you step out to face the real world in college you see the world new, fresh and learn a whale of things because what we think we are in school are not what we really are.
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