School days Remembered

Let me drive you to my school days.

Poom- Pom, Peem- pem, Dhuuuurrrrrr........

I love my school, friends, teachers. They are all so special to me, as they played a noble role in my life. There are lots of things to be unveiled in this topic. Let me spill the beans one by one, as very thing cannot be covered in a single shot.

I was in class X. It was my paradise with all eternal glory prevailing around me. I used be bouncing with a bright immortal smile. My class teacher was an awesome lady. Quite hard to meet such a woman. She used to teach Social Science, which is considered to be the toughest subject in class X. She followed an unique principles in handling students. Yes, this space is for her and her love towards us.

Few of her golden rules are:

1.)Each and every students should take shorthand notes while she is in the process of teaching. Note book should be divided into 4 parts [History, Geography, Civics & Economics]. Notes should be taken in points.

2.)Each and every student should be located cyclically in all benches. (Meaning: "First Bench is not always meant for Padips" & "Last bench is not meant for Lord Labbaca Das")

3.)Students should take turns in bringing flowers for Lord Saraswathi portrait kept in the corner of the class room. [Hope thats why, still Saraswathi is my favorite deity].

4.)Each and every student should participate in the Stage Assembly program*.

5.)Students scoring more than 80 in her paper will get a cute little Reynolds Jetter pen. She motivates students to score more and in turn she gets credit in doing so. I think this is what the Management Gurus and philosophers call as "win-win situation".

6.)Map marking classes used to be my favorite hour. She used to fix all the historic & geographic places along with latitude and longitude in our mind. Almost she makes all her students to score full marks in map marking question.

7.)I will keep adding more as I recollect things....


P.S
Stage Assembly program in my school:
Each class gets 1 week to showcase their students talent on stage.

Monday: March past with Band music. So no stage assembly program on Mondays.
Tuesday: Program on Patriotism
Wednesday:Program on Science
Thursday: Program on Language
Friday: Program on Culture
Saturday: Bhajan songs. So no stage assembly program on Saturdays too.

Most of the class teachers will make the interested/talented students to participate in the programs. But our madam will make the whole class to be the part of the show. I remember well I enacted as a dental doctor in the science play talking about plaque and cavity :)

P.S.S
I swifted to a different school for my higher secondary course. Suddenly one fine morning I got a Reynolds Gel pen from her through a friend of mine for scoring 87 in Annual exam. Thanks Mam, for being part of my life. I love you alot. I owe you big time. :)

Anju