Teacher beating a student and a student showing tendencies of assaulting a teacher are both unpardonable crimes and as such standards of administrative and institutional accountability demands application of the equal yardsticks of punishment for violators of both the classes,i.e, the teachers and as well as the students. Though the latest incident about the beating of a child by a teacher in a government school deserved the action the Director School Edication Kashmir initiated against the accused teacher but the fact can’t be denied that students particularly in middle and secondary school on only show attitudinal behaviour but also come to blow and abuses with the teachers. Discipline in the classrooms totally depends on student-teacher relationship and both the student and as well as the teachers have to shown maximum restraint in the learning teaching process.
The Directorate of School Education has issued a circular on corporal punishment to teachers for beating a student in hast and better it would have been for the government to take an appropriate decision on corporal punishment to teachers after examining the probe report of the inquiry committee tasked the job of investigation the allegations of beating a child against a teacher in a government school in Uri.
The experiences of classroom teaching show that a teacher would never try to be harsh unless and until the student does not tend to be non-cooperative in following the instructions and advices of the teacher. The idea of corporal punishment has been experimented in various countries and some states in India but the same has not brought perceptible change in the academic environment in the classes. While the government is tending to enforce corporal punishment to ensure that teachers show maximum restraint in dealing with the students tending to be non-cooperative in following their instructions and advices the people running the affairs of education department don’t tend to take care of the indiscipline which the students show just to either skip the regular classes or pursue copying in examination halls.
The government has to also draw some lessons from a congenial academic atmosphere which the managements of the majority of private schools have developed in the class rooms. Unfortunately the government does not ponder over the incidents of indiscipline shown by the students in class rooms and the allegations of beating against the teachers only in the state run schools but not the private schools. The report of the inquiry committee that has been tasked the job of probing the alleged beating of a child in a School in border area of Uri in Baramulla district will reveal much more than the causes of the incident and it is for the authorities to try to draw some more clues about the student-teacher relationship in class from the probe report of inquiry committee to be submit just within four days. The Directorate of School Education has issued a circular on corporal punishment to teachers for beating a student in hast and better it would have been for the government to take an appropriate decision on corporal punishment to teachers after examining the probe report of the inquiry committee tasked the job of investigation the allegations of beating a child against a teacher in a government school in Uri.
