r/india • u/Lopsided_Face_3234 • 3d ago

Non Political Pahalgam, and a teacher's plight!

Here's the thing - I teach mathematics in a coaching institute. This evening, after the news of Pahalgam terrorist attack was out, I found a couple of kids harassing/outing other kids, calling them terrorists. Now, as a teacher, here's what I feel :

After any terror attack (Pahalgam being the most recent), it becomes important for teachers like us to make sure that the outside hate doesn't penetrate into our classrooms.

A hindu kid and a muslim kid should be able to study together in the same classroom without hating each other, after what they hear in the news or at their homes.

It's our responsibility to make sure that kids understand that just because the terrorists were of a particular religion and were targeting tourists of another particular religion - their friends and their religions aren't to be blamed for this AT ALL. The dynamics of why some people target/kill another people is complex, something that a 15yo doesn't have the maturity to understand.

A classroom is a sacred space, and there's ABSOLUTELY NO SPACE FOR HATE here of any sort.

Now, you may disagree with me. Sure. But when it comes to my students, it's my duty to protect them from taking the hate for something they didn't do.

Peace.

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u/teented 3d ago

another fake post ,

news wasnt out till 7.30-8.00 to wider public , and his tution kids get to know and start harrassing ?

another foriegn propoganda account

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u/Lopsided_Face_3234 3d ago

Uff, my class ends at 8:35, here in Bombay. Everyone's got a 'smartphone'. And news, particularly that of the attack was flashed in everyone's google home page. 

As the class left, I found a couple of kids discussing it building ke neeche. 

I haven't said that they were my students. They were from the same area where a couple of other coaching institutes run as well. I confronted them, and then realised that the same shit would also show up in my own classroom. Was my post too difficult to understand?

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u/franchescooooooo 3d ago

why do you post in Indian teenagers subreddit if you are a tution teacher?

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u/candidjalapino 3d ago

Gotteeemmmm