Upholding human rights in Indian educational institutions

The Issue

These words are from the bottom of my heart. They may seem silly, but aren't so.

I'm a person who is traumatised and hopeless due to the educational system of India. It stays static. We cannot blame anyone for the trauma. This is a systemic problem. 

The teachers who are so hostile and rash creates a distance between themselves and us. Their arrival with canes are enough for the day. Their various punishments are so indelible in our minds. I'd a teacher who would beat any student who solely moves from their place during their duty hours. Another teacher would proudly say about them beating their own kid with whatever available. All these were understood traumatising only after years, when I understood that peace was hard to find even at my own house. Then how come at educational institutions? The images of these abusive teachers, their hostility, would stay in my mind and would pop up when I search for emancipation. When I got to a good college, I felt liberated. But what about the college at which I spent my approx one month before getting into this institute? That college too had extremely biased teachers who were intolerant. 

It was a relaxation period before my admission to that college and I were to this typical Kerala college. Students of other departments wore sassy clothes and instantly, in our class, one teacher once said that students should uphold the dignity of the department and should not make people say this and that. Why are our educational institutions not allowing us to be ourselves? Are you fearing the society? 

And I also remember one school teacher saying to not allow girls to lie together since 'they might become lesbians.' Absence of sex education. 

In the guise of morality, people pleasing takes place and it has a great cost of young minds. It's amplified by ignorance. This mentality is like a tree whose roots are spread across, diverse. 

I want to insert here the famous Article 21 of Indian constitution which grants the Indian citizen with life and personal liberty. It's one of the basic but broadly interpreted articles of the constitution. Right to personal liberty consists of dignity too. Don't the students of India deserve it?

I've already said that this petition would seem silly, but it's fundamental for our pure existence. That's why it's important to uphold human rights in educational institutions. Apart from endorsing the suggested curriculum, these places enforce a much invisible or implicit curriculum. There's high chance of repetition of harmful behaviour and continuity of ignorance.  That's why I want human rights to be strictly upheld in Indian educational institutions.

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Parvathi SanmayiPetition StarterStorms but I'll say my words.

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The Issue

These words are from the bottom of my heart. They may seem silly, but aren't so.

I'm a person who is traumatised and hopeless due to the educational system of India. It stays static. We cannot blame anyone for the trauma. This is a systemic problem. 

The teachers who are so hostile and rash creates a distance between themselves and us. Their arrival with canes are enough for the day. Their various punishments are so indelible in our minds. I'd a teacher who would beat any student who solely moves from their place during their duty hours. Another teacher would proudly say about them beating their own kid with whatever available. All these were understood traumatising only after years, when I understood that peace was hard to find even at my own house. Then how come at educational institutions? The images of these abusive teachers, their hostility, would stay in my mind and would pop up when I search for emancipation. When I got to a good college, I felt liberated. But what about the college at which I spent my approx one month before getting into this institute? That college too had extremely biased teachers who were intolerant. 

It was a relaxation period before my admission to that college and I were to this typical Kerala college. Students of other departments wore sassy clothes and instantly, in our class, one teacher once said that students should uphold the dignity of the department and should not make people say this and that. Why are our educational institutions not allowing us to be ourselves? Are you fearing the society? 

And I also remember one school teacher saying to not allow girls to lie together since 'they might become lesbians.' Absence of sex education. 

In the guise of morality, people pleasing takes place and it has a great cost of young minds. It's amplified by ignorance. This mentality is like a tree whose roots are spread across, diverse. 

I want to insert here the famous Article 21 of Indian constitution which grants the Indian citizen with life and personal liberty. It's one of the basic but broadly interpreted articles of the constitution. Right to personal liberty consists of dignity too. Don't the students of India deserve it?

I've already said that this petition would seem silly, but it's fundamental for our pure existence. That's why it's important to uphold human rights in educational institutions. Apart from endorsing the suggested curriculum, these places enforce a much invisible or implicit curriculum. There's high chance of repetition of harmful behaviour and continuity of ignorance.  That's why I want human rights to be strictly upheld in Indian educational institutions.

avatar of the starter
Parvathi SanmayiPetition StarterStorms but I'll say my words.

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