In education, we talk about bullying a lot but our schools are too big and the adults who are closest to children are often too overwhelmed with getting through the next class or day to build healthy relationships. More problematic is the way adults treat each other and children in the presence of others. Words are simply not enough. Real change in our educational systems is long overdue. Are you listening politicians and school managers?
There is no heroism
In tormenting the weak
Ganging up against those
You dislike or do not understand.
To ruin a thing you can’t have!
It only throws the limelight
On your weakness, cowardice
How scared you are of failure
Or something you can’t
Grasp, control or have.
If it was not so
You would have simply co-existed
With that thing that just is not
You or yours
Like flowers co exist with thorns.
Sharmishtha Basu
4.3.13
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Teacher as Transformer 