Do not compare

Part 3                        

There was a teacher who took a painstaking effort to arrange answer scripts from the highest to the lowest score. There was no need to do this, most teachers set answer scripts as per roll order.

On the last day of school, the names of the students who had passed were announced in front of the whole school as per the order of their aggregate. This was a ritualistic annual practice. The students who had passed had to stand up as their names were called. The ones who stood up at the beginning received thunderous claps.

The students who failed wept, sobbed or tried to blink away their tears when they sat while they never heard their names being called. I do not know what the school gained by humiliating these students. Some of them have gone on to do quite well in their careers now.

A classmate had a learning disability, it was a challenge for her to get promoted. Another couldn’t adjust to the education system and was more suited to an international school. When the girl who was intellectually challenged couldn’t pass, her class teacher humiliated her in front of the class saying, “You have flunked because you didn’t study and it’s of no use shedding crocodile tears now.”

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