Save The Teacher

I am writing this with the pain of having worked with the teaching community. The government says that there is a shortage of 15 lakh teachers in India . When there is a shortage of something , sops are announced by governments and corporates. So if there is a shortage of doctors the seats are increased , more colleges are opened to make up for the shortage . But in the case of teachers (a) it is increasingly becoming difficult to find teachers and (b) less and less number of people are opting for teaching as a career.

In this background , the most sought after species that of teachers is being treated like shit . Government teachers are given all kinds of odd jobs apart from teaching and crucified when the results are bad.

Private school teachers are now subject to daily insults by parents and now the final nail to the coffin a CBSE diktat asking for police verification of teachers . Since a large part of the teachers are women it becomes all the more embarrassing. 

So I for one as a citizen of India am not going to take this lying down and request the self respect of teachers to be restored and seek immediate intervention of the Prime Minister in taking back such an order that lacks logic . 

Schools and colleges are the backbone of our society and produce doctors , engineers , bureaucrats and all other careers . Any move that degrades the self respect of teachers would drive more teachers away from teaching leaving the beleaguered education system in dire straits . 

So please stop treating teachers in this manner . There is too much at stake . As it is education is the key to our development and needs lot of efforts . But this is going to dent such efforts.