The glory of a teacher begins with the students and it is carried through the long journey a teacher completes. Bliss of being a student is the very opportunity one has to discover one’s own self through all the educational curriculum and guidance offered by teachers. Referring to the famous American psychologist B.F. Skinner, “Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten”; as educational curriculum provides the structure, it’s a teacher who embeds the soul of the education. Present scenario of educational system reinforces the manners and etiquette a teacher should follow in the classroom and respective laws protect the students from any of the breach that takes place; at least provision and existence of the appropriate law is now well-aware fact; but same doesn’t apply for a teacher. Is there any specific case where teachers’ disrespect is tackled in a stringent manner? If a student misbehaves with a teacher, there is no specific law which can be applied upon that student for such disregard to a teacher or for disrespecting the educational organization. For a matter of fact, media creates few panel discussions in the news channels and after a week we forget the incident or some new incidents likewise substitute the old one. Guilt lies in our society which fails to protect the teachers from the misbehavior they receive from the system and specially from the so-called students. Intruders play an active role to instigate the situation and try to highlight the lapse of the organization. Students who are actually suffering from any concern would highlight those immediately with the due procedure and pathway of the curriculum but the trend shows a typical nature of few students who start raising concerns right after not being able to clear the examinations. They not only socially harass teachers, also create fancy stories which they circulate in social media to attract sympathy. There are instances where teachers are physically harassed too even in colleges.

Curriculum of West Bengal Board has gone through various improvisations. Continuous modifications are now constant trends but the state of teachers is not even considered a matter to be worried about. A recent incident in Bethune Collegiate School has come up in media that 18 students are not being able to clear the examination of class XI, which itself an examination conducted by the Higher Secondary Council of West Bengal, and they are detained by the school. On the contrary of being unsuccessful candidates, they misbehaved with the teachers and sit in protest to promote them to higher class and their parents have threatened teachers by stating the possibility that their children could commit suicide for this decision of the school. The matter didn’t end here as few of the ex-students and some intruders tried to malign the organization and the teachers in social media and finally multiple series and threads of comments come to a stop when our Honorable Education Minister confirmed that there would not be any compromise with regards to detention of such candidates across all the schools.

Our system protects the rights of a student but it lacks miserably to do the same for the teacher. It is high time when the educational system should act accordingly and social position of the teacher to be restored. It is our liability to protect the glory of the teaching profession as it can not be denied that “One Child, one Teacher, one book, one pen can change the world”- Malala Yousafzai .