Pacman vs. Marquez, GMA7 vs. ABS-CBN2, military vs. abu-sayaff and many more fights have been matched in their own battlefield. With these fights, we can hardly tell who are going to win. Everyone has their own tactics and styles in competing with one another in order to defeat their opponent in their chosen field. Everyone has fair chances of winning.
This duel is very different from the teaching field where teachers and pupils encounter. In this case, their battlefield is the teaching field…the school, particularly the classroom. The fact that teachers benefit from this financially…pupils benefit more from this match. Though compensation is not worth to the teaching job, they still extract effort to deluge the problems inside the classroom and in order to produce quality citizens of our country. Teachers share and impart knowledge to the children to the best of their abilities. Teachers try their best to understand and to relate in every child with different behaviors and backgrounds. But like any other story, conflicts sometimes occur due to some unavoidable circumstances. Many things happened during the teaching-learning situations and in the disciplinary-action making.
A teacher hit a pupil with a stick…a teacher shouted at her pupil…a pupil was asked by the teacher to do some errand during class hour. ..etc.,etc.,etc. Without any further investigations, I can clearly say that the TEACHER involved is always and absolutely accused as GUILTY!
Why?
A teacher hit a pupil with a stick…PHYSICAL ABUSED!
A teacher shouted at his/her pupil…VERBAL ABUSED!
(Teacher vs.Pupil)
A pupil was asked to do an errand during class hour…ABUSED IN AUTHORITY!
Let us reverse some of these situations. How about a pupil who hit the teacher with a stick? Have you heard about a pupil who stabbed his teacher? A pupil shouted and called bad names for his teacher? A pupil who always stamped feet every time he was asked to do an errand? Are these pupils guilty? PUPILS remained INNOCENT!
Is there justice in the battlefield of teacher-pupil match?
Teachers are also human who sometimes entitled to commit mistakes. They are sometimes forced to do such things for the goodness of their pupils and for wanting them to learn and to become good citizens. They just wanted to discipline them. They also have feelings. Teachers also wanted to feel that they are protected. Why always condemned them for little mistake, exploited them with some negative or violent reactions when situations were broadcasted? How will teachers discipline their pupils?
Is the teacher-pupil match fair?
By: Josielyne F. Pragacha | Teacher III | Pantingan Elementary School | Pantingan, Pilar, Bataan
