Pulling The Shutters Down!

The parents ARE worried about their children….They ARE more worried when they get out of their homes, going to the schools they study…..They ARE worried about the treatment their children get from the various educational institutions, scattered all over the places…..They ARE SPECIALLY worried about their girls who go to the schools……THEY ARE A TOTALLY WORRIED LOT…!

Till a decade or so back, parents sent their children to the schools  without tension, ALWAYS believing in the safety their children had there….After sending to schools the parents were NEVER worried as they went on, tension free, doing whatever they had been doing….!

But, of late, all these reassuring thoughts seemed to have vanished, all of a sudden to a far distant land! The terrifying stories of children of all ages, from the toddlers to the teens, getting sexually abused, that too inside the school premises have the parents wondering what’s happening to the education system!

At the learning centres of the country, LIKE Kerala & Bangalore, out of nowhere, started pouring out the cries of the hapless abused children, inside the school premises! What everyone SHOULD have noticed IS the TYPE of schools where this sort of abuses take place – In ‘MOST OF THE CASES’, it ‘IS’ a reputed school or a school with a LARGE NUMBER OF STUDENTS!

THE SCENE IS ALWAYS THE SAME……A person, in the form of an insignificant person such as a peon, driver, an insignificant teacher & others (All of these persons feel the HUGE lack of significance in their life, particularly in the school!) lure a NEVER DOUBTING child into his trap, most of the time, EXPLOITING the insignificance of his existence in the school premises! THE HARD FACT THAT it is the ones who are insignificant or feel insignificant in their Life & inside the school premises do this type of senseless cruelties to the children ALWAYS escape attention of the ‘WHO IS WHO’ of the present day education system!

Despite all the precautions or ‘SUPPOSED’ PRECAUTIONS these schools take, this sort of evil deeds keep happening. Out of the blue, these BAD MEN ALWAYS appear & destroy the lives of innumerable helpless children; and with them these schools, as well. And, the fact IS that this sort of things kept happening EVEN when children were going to school 20 or 30 or 40 years ago; the difference IS that of the much increased frequency & scale of reporting of such incidents NOW & THEN; and, the sensationalism applied in such incidents.

IT SUGGESTS ONE THING: - the authorities of the schools DON’T KNOW what to do in these sorts of situations & moreover, they don’t know how to prevent this cruelty from happening, time & again. It is a fact that they can’t UNDERSTAND IN ADVANCE what one man will do NEXT, every second of his existence in the school premises. THE FUTURE COPS are yet to be deployed!

BUT, what they can do is to ‘KEEP AN EYE ON’, after verifying the credentials of the people when they join the school or the educational institution, ALL THE PERSONS WHOM THEY ‘FIND OUT’ LOW ON SELF ESTEEM & THOSE WHO ARE THERE IN THE SCHOOL IN INSIGNIFICANT POSITIONS; and, let these people have LESS contact with the children that they be prevented from EXPLOITING the weaklings.

The other thing that can be done is from the government’s side :- that is, giving stringent punishment to the culprits without delay that the ‘WOULD BE’ offenders come to know what will happen to them if & when caught , red handed. And, the government has to make sure that the wrong persons ARE NOT PUNISHED in the ‘witch hunt’ that is always been carried out ceremoniously  in India, in all the fields of professions etc.

As the term ‘SEXUAL ABUSE’ is NOT that much of a TRANSPARENT TERM, despite having innumerable clauses & sub clauses, it is the duty of the government to clear the fog as soon as possible that NOBODY utilises the ambiguity of the term for their vested interests. It will ALSO be MUCH advisable to LET THE PUBLIC KNOW ‘WHAT HAPPENED TO A CONFIRMED CRIMINAL’ IN A PARTICULAR CASE that such heinous crimes where a person is DESTROYED in the childhood or teens don’t fade away from the public mind & lessen their precaution that they be caught off guard, again & again.

The cases where for silly & stupid reasons the law of child abuse is evoked & an entire school has to suffer AS WAS THE CASE WITH A SCHOOL IN THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, KERALA, where the license of an school was cancelled & all the students of the school were FORCIBLY shifted to another school ONLY BECAUSE a teacher ‘ALLEGEDLY’ put a student in an empty kennel for some time to punish him for some error, SEEMS NOTHING SHORT OF jumping the gun by eons!  

When the various education departments take SUCH senseless actions against such minor & silly incidents, in the name of law, discipline, order in the society etc when all the while they have been sleeping on the grinding issues the student community has been facing for decades (Like the low standard education imparted, low standard faculty provided in the schools, low standard of the education system etc!) ONE SERIOUSLY DOUBTS SOMETHING MORE THAN EARNESTNESS & SENSE OF JUSTICE in their behavior!

Are these incidents happening in the reputed educational centers & institutions the HANDI WORK of someone who @ his will conduct these sorts of vicious & evil things to benefit certain groups or persons, in the education sector, luring the vulnerable in the institution for stupidly insignificant amounts of money or something else that the credibility of the education institution BE LOST FOR EVER?

IS THIS THE SIGN OF THE EDUCATIONAL THINGS TO COME?; like the entry of foreign school chains into India, IN THE NAME OF CHILD SAFETY & INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS OF EDUCATION, for which there has ALWAYS been a ‘CREATED GROUP’ OF TAKERS? IS THIS A PART OF THE MANIPULATION OF THE INDIAN EDUCATIONAL CREDIBILITY & STANDARDS, WHICH HAVE BEEN BUILT OVER THOUSANDS OF YEARS?

THE QUESTIONS ARE NUMEROUS & VIVID….BUT, THE ANSWERS ARE NOT THAT VIVID @ THE MOMENT….! LET’S KEEP OUR EYES & EARS OPEN THAT ‘TIME’ GIVES THE RIGHT ANSWERS TO ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS WHICH CRY OUT FOR THE LOGICAL, SENSIBLE & UNMANIPULATED ANSWERS!

LET US PREPARE OURSELVES FOR THOSE ANSWERS OF ‘TIME’….! WHEN THE SHUTTERS OF THE INDIAN SCHOOLS WHERE THE INDIAN EDUCATION IS IMPARTED ARE PULLED DOWN FORCIBLY BY INVISIBLE PERSONS, FOR THE SAKE OF UNSOUND REASONS, LET US WAIT FOR THE ANSWERS OF ‘TIME’, AS THEY ARE NOT VERY FAR AWAY FROM US…..!