MONDAY BLUES (21)

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SCHOOL DAYS AND FUNNY NICKNAMES OF TEACHERS

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Good afternoon friends,

Hope you had a fantastic weekend🍕🏠🎉. Today I am going to share a chapter of my golden days, childhood and school days. According to a latest joke, SCHOOL stands for Seven Crappy Hours OF One’s life. 😂😂😂😂. This might be true from the viewpoint of a disgruntled kid, fearing punishment for a homework that he forgot to do.

That said, school days are indeed memorable. I remember when children had coined spontaneous nicknames for their offending teachers.

I and my brother went to Saraswati Vidyalaya in Nagpur. One of our Physical Education teachers, was called ‘ glass tumbler’. God knows why? My Maths teacher reminded me of Lord Voldemort while our social studies teacher was notoriously called as the ” Sleeping Pill”. All the students at middle school and primary school level, teased her a lot. This was something I didn’t like and felt bad for her. She also taught History to my younger brother. He told me about an interesting incident that took place while the class was going on:

Class: Goooood Morniiiiiiiing, Teacher. ( wished musically just to irritate her.)

The History teacher: Good morning. Please say it normally. I don’t want to listen to a movie song.

She started teaching about the early civilization. ” So, ” she droned, ” The middle class people were…… ” A student raised his hand and answered, ” Third class people.” The whole class giggled. The teacher screamed, ” That’s all. The whole class has gone mad.”

She controlled her temper and resumed teaching. She raised her voice dramatically while a boy pretended to control her volume by turning on and off, an imaginary knob on an imaginary radio. She was miffed as children continued to chatter and she threatened, ” Heyyy…… If you talk no……… that’s all.”

I remember joining a new school at Delhi, DTEA. Except for a selected few, teachers had nicknames here as well. Our History teacher was Mrs. Bhuvaneshwari, whom my classmates called ‘ Babbu’. Once it so happened that we gifted her a Teacher’s Day card but accidentally wrote, “Dear Ms. Babbu. You are one of the best teachers, we ever had.” She smiled and took it very sportingly.

Our political science teacher was called “Chimpabai” because she looked like a chimpanzee. I know it’s too cruel. But at least we listened to her lectures attentively, unlike, our History Teacher in Nagpur.

While the incidents may seem to be funny but it speaks volumes of the students bullying their teachers, which I completely despised. Teachers are like our secondary parents. They should be treated with respect and not tortured. I request all the parents having school going kids to advise them on refraining from badmouthing their teachers.

It’s not easy to handle a class of 40, with most of the parents complaining about the lack of individual attention to their wards. These people should understand that they can hardly manage their own children at home while the teachers have to take care of 40-45 students.

While I might have laughed at the unusual nicknames of the teachers , I wish to apologize to all of them on behalf of the entire class and thank them sincerely for kindling the light of knowledge on the darkness of ignorance in our souls.

Thank you so much for taking your precious time to visit my website. Hope you enjoyed reading my blogs. 😊😊

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I am an avid reader. I love to travel and listening to music. Creative writing is my dream. My favorite authors are J.K. Rowling , Robin Cook, John Grisham .

23 thoughts on “MONDAY BLUES (21)”

  4. Thank you so much, Elvira dear. You always make me so happy😊😊😊 🌹🌹🌹😊😊😊😊🍫🍫🍫🍫🍦🍦🍦🍦😘🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🍩🍩🍩☕☕☕☕. I wish may all your good dreams come true.

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  10. Honey, we had some wild and crazy names for a few of our teachers as well. Yet somehow, our school exuded a sense of discipline in our classes. There was zero tolerance for disrespecting our teachers or administrators as what we are seeing these days. Thanks for sharing you and your brother’s school experiences. I have respect for those teachers these days who are doing their best and who have to deal with disrespect from students and sometimes their parents. UGH!!! 😘💖😊

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  11. Haha~ you actually reminded me my childhood as well!😂😂😂 Yes almost all teachers in schools had “unique” nicknames made up by kids…some were passed from senior students, some were new with quite…ahem, “unique”!🤣

    By the way, do kids in India have nicknames made by friends too? we used to, but recently sometimes nicknames could lead to bullying, so a lot of schools in Japan is trying to prohibit any nicknames😵‍💫

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  12. Thank you so much, dear Kym. I think students don’t realize the seriousness of their acts. One of them should be made to stand in front of the class and teach his classmates. Only then he or she will realize what the teachers go through. 😘😘😘🥰🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍. Lots of ❤❤❤❤❤love, hugs, kisses and best wishes.

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  13. Thank you so much, dear. Yes, kids also have nicknames. I think Japan is doing a wonderful job. We should follow the suit here as well. Actually, it’s really sad to find a substantial increase in the number of suicides by students due to bullying by classmates, parental pressure to score well, pressure from the school to perform well. 😥😥😥. I wish people could stop pestering their children so much.

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  16. You are welcome, dear Aparna.
    I am glad with you. 🍫🤗😊😊😘😊😊😘😊🌸🧁🫖☕🌸🧁🫖☕🌸🧁🫖☕🍫🍫🍩🍩🍫🍫🍩🍩🥞☕🥞☕🥞☕ Wishing you the same, deserve the best!

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