Suspended

This is regarding the recent event at school and suspension of some of my friends for 3 months from school for putting up a picture of a math test which has zero marks writing saali kutti on facebook. I was thinking of writing a letter to the editor some thing they have been teaching us at school for years to complain against some thing you dont like so i thought ill give it a try.

To The Editor

This is regarding the recent events at Vivek high school, Chandigarh. Everything that has been shown to every one about the Facebook picture issues has mostly been from the teacher’s and school's point of view. I would like to pin point the student’s point of view regarding this issue. I would say that what ever the school authorities have said about the situation is also right till a certain extent that it is wrong to put up something offensive about a teacher on a social networking website, But I also feel that there is right to freedom of expression to each individual moreover it is something that has happened outside the school premises thus school has no right to interfere or to issue suspension letters.

I would also like to point out that the teacher here against whom the picture was put up is hated by every student of the class. Mostly reasons for hatred include negative motivation, getting mad at students if they do not get something. Summing it all up the students feel reluctant to come to school just because they have to attend an hour of math class with the teacher which is somewhat similar to torture for them. The teacher was same for the section in class 11 also. She is well educated knows everything but the way she teaches is not appreciated she is more of a college level teacher. Many revolts were taken against her in class 11, letters were written to the head of departments and other senior teachers with every students signature on it. The teacher was not changed. Before the start of the New Year the students while still in class 11 pleaded and begged the class teacher and others to get their point across of not having the same teacher for class 12 which was ignored. The teacher remained the same; the way of teaching remained the same. The hate between the students for the teacher increased and came out on a social networking website which I guess is justified.

I read your news paper and it seemed to say that the comments on that picture were nasty, rude or abusive while the picture mostly comments included “LOL”, “Hahaha”, one even said "I got the same marks” and I think that suspension for the students especially with such comments is not even worth suspension for that long, the max that should have had been done was to call their parents or give them a warning. Suspension for 3 months is too much; thinking about the future of the children and that they would not be attending a single class of the second term which is basically half of the syllabus. I think keeping the above points in mind the school authorities should reconsider 3 months. I would say 2 weeks or in an extreme situation if the school still does not want the students back one month is still justified. Moreover the school wants to teach the students a lesson for life is what they say but mostly their actions would cause depression tension and finally lower grades for their boards which would decide their future and the lesson of life which could have had also been learnt in 2 weeks would be wasted.