Children go to school five times a week, meet their teachers for several class hours a day, have their bonding with their classmates and playmates during recess and break times, do recitations, go home and do assignments, and lastly, prepare themselves for tomorrow’s schooling.

 

            Generally, students (commonly referring to high school and college students) and pupils (pertaining to elementary students) spend more or less 8 hours of their day in school. School, which serves not only as their learning base where they become part of the academic race but also as their second home.

 

            A second home where they also do their ”household chores” – do some recitations, seat works, projects and even clean their room as what they likely do at home. From here, they also find brothers and sisters within the personas of their classmates. They make friends and create good terms with others. They do play games and make fun talks to have some refreshments to lighten their day. Do prank together. Find best friends and treat them as kin as one of their family members.

 

            Second home is also where they find their second parents, their teachers. And as how they behave with their parents, they do the same with their teachers. They respect them as how they respect their parents, follow them as they give orders, do treat them comparably with their parents.

 

            Teachers are second parents not just by the manner and regard carried in some specified ways by the students. They are also distinguished because of their unselfish deeds. Comparably with the role of all parents, to exalt their children’s mind in the dump of ignorance, teachers furnish and impart knowledge and skills. They feed them spoons of wisdoms to learn the various aspects in life within their utmost efforts.

 

            And just like how any parent does to her child who did mistakes, flaws and errors in his ways, teachers understand. They impose discipline and even correct the inappropriate behavior of the students. With these, children truly find their second parents.

 

            Schooling does not amount singly with heads quenched with knowledge and skills but also results to of having a second home and second parents.

By: Elvira C. De Guia | Teacher II | Limay Elementary School | Limay, Bataan