Our Principal Talks to you
Teachers v/s Parents
By :
Dr.Veena Sahgal
( Principal, The Adarsh School, Kirti Nagar )
In today’s world the biggest problem faced by educationists is to find out a way to avoid confrontation between parents & teachers. Parents generally try to find faults with the teachers to hide their own shortcomings while teachers try to blame the parents for non-cooperation & for not giving “time” to their children. The situation becomes a very difficult one to tackle for the child as he stands in the middle of a road with traffic passing-by him at high speeds. At times the child feels his parents are correct & at some moments feels his teachers are right.
Rather than indulging in playing a blame-game, both parents & teachers should go hand in hand to make the child a better human being. I have seen Parent-Teacher Meetings becoming a battlefield for supremacy where both the involved warriors try to find ways to pin down the other. The whole purpose of PTMs gets defeated & the child starts dreading the thought of his parents meeting the parents.
A child is like a chariot which has two wheels, namely Parents & Teachers. Visualise a situation where one wheel is oversized – the result being that the chariot (here the child) may even get ruined. Mutual trust & respect for each other is the bottom-line of this relationship.
Parents should give quality time to their children if they don’t have sufficient time. Parents should remember that “Home is the first school of the child where he / she gets the first lesson of education”. Never blame or criticize the teachers in the presence of children, rather a positive feeling for teachers be inculcated in them so that they learn to respect their teachers.
Teachers should try to give lesser academic homework as this homework is never done by the children but often by parents, who at times are not well equipped to help the child. And the best way out is to blame the teacher. Never hesitate to accept your mistake as one learns new things everyday. Treat your student like your own son / daughter.
“May your child be an ADARSH for the society”.