SAGE INTERNATIONAL

SCHOOL

FROM THE HEART OF A

TEACHER.....
‐ Ever since the closure of schools following the lockdown, I have
been feeling a strange awkwardness in being a teacher.
‐ The whole hue and cry over the school fees ( to be paid or not) has
led to an uncomfortable feeling in the heart and head of a sensitive
teacher like me.

Suddenly a teacher's work and worth is being made to look directly

proportionate to the school fee being paid . This part saddens me.
This lockdown made me realize that teachers are still
many miles and mindsets away from ever getting their
due.

The closure of schools was immediately looked upon as

though teachers had suddenly decided to sit back home
and have a "Khushi time holiday".
However, the best cbse school of bhopal SAGE International
School DK have started the online classes and was undertaken on
almost a war footing and the teacher was back in action , though
on unfamiliar territory!

People not even for a moment sympathized with the predicament

of the teacher.

We were pushed into a situation we were never prepared for.

But a teacher being a teacher rose to the occasion and today I can proudly
say that most of the teaching fraternity is handling the online classes with
considerable ease and creativity!

Parents who sit in the virtual classes with their children have a great
responsibility. The social media is abuzz with parents criticizing teachers at
the slightest reason.
This saddens me so much. It's as if a school fee is
enough to buy the right to judge a teacher with your
unreasonable yardstick.

We teachers are hardly worried about the pandemic , all

we worry about day in and day out is our next virtual
lesson plan .
The question that torments us most is , "what if my internet doesn't
work?"

" what if my class is not given a thumbs up by my boss?"

What if this and what if that.

The Corona virus has lost all it's potency for a teacher. She or he is over and above
it's lethal sting.

And so I say teachers are survivors. We know how to weather storms. We know how
to rise above the tide. We have super powers and we know how to use them right.

This pandemic will end one day. What will remain for a long time is this rather
uncomfortable feeling of being a teacher in a locked down world.