Saturday, 14 January 2012

Predicament of a Male Teacher

In one of my earlier posts I had put forward the Problems faced by school teachers in General. Now I will put forward the problems faced by a MALE school teacher in Today's times.
We keep hearing that the world is galloping ahead into a new era; new things are happening; people's mindset is changing rapidly....... etc., etc., all true things which are however far from reality.
Take for instance our typical Indian Middle Class family with its middle class mindset... Females (read WIFE) should stay at home and Males(read HUSBAND) should work. Well now imagine what happens if the FEMALE (WIFE) goes out for a 8:30 am to 6:00 pm job and the MALE (HUSBAND) goes to a 7:30 am to 1:30 pm job??? Which means the MALE (HUSBAND) reaches home much ahead of the FEMALE(WIFE). And imagine the predicament of the Husband if he happens to be a SCHOOL TEACHER !!! which is considered as the WOMEN's JOB?????!!!!@!#!@#!$@!$##@%#%

Well trust me friends its real tough life for the Husband specially if he has a MOTHER and a WIFE to handle at the same time.

And you can't even imagine that fateful day when the HUSBAND has a long winter vacations and the WIFE goes out to work in that time. God all hell breaks loose at home.

Outside people say, " Raja wali naukri hai bhai teri. Subah jao and dopahar ko wapas". Ask a teacher who is at the helm of affairs.

And trust me you would not like to be in this situation when you have got some close relatives living nearby.

Well frankly friends I don't think there is another job which can be more fulfilling than Teaching (of course if you love it) and nothing more a troubling profession for you if you happen to be a married man whose wife has a good job requiring long hours and if your relatives live nearby.

Do you know what happens in that case?????

Well some other day I will tell you.

Monday, 9 January 2012

Reservation in Indian conditions

Well I feel there seems to be a big problem in our understanding of who should get reservations and who should not. Very honestly speaking, reservation is a must in Indian scenario but the question is Reservation for whom and at what level? In india the problem of reservation and its implementation is more political than socio-economical.
The real problem and its base and its solution are totally lost in the war for power (read Political power).
Would it not be more beneficial and the real solution if RESERVATION is provided at school level in the better public / private schools?
Would it not be better that economically sound people should be left out of the RESERVATION system?
Would it not be better that reservation should be provided to ECONOMICALLY BACKWARD people instead of BACKWARD CASTE people?

India seems to be the only country in the world where since its independence people have GONE BACKWARDS THAN FORWARD??!!!!!!

Today every tom, dick and harry wants to become backward so as the get the share of the plum cake called reservation.

Take this.
If the recent census shows that the so called socially backward class people account for more than 50 % of Indias population, then a new problem will emerge. The so called General people will have the right to count themselves in MINORITIES. So they may ask for RESERVATION too. And else RESERVATION is already there.

So I think the  best bet is to declare the entire nation as backward. We will be a big happy backward family and then maybe people will realise that its better to give reservations based on economic conditions than out age old caste system which has hollowed Indian system for thousands of years.

So friends welcome to the bandwagon of BACKWARD PEOPLE. Ahoy!!!