| | | | | more important for primary school teachers to be able |
| ARTICLE :MY BIG FAT MAM’! | | | | to play and have fun with the students. I am afraid |
| | | | | with such bag and baggage they could hardly move to |
| With every fifth person in our society turning obese, | | | | the third floor of the school building as lifts are fancy |
| ‘Fat’ is a fact that is girdling around for | | | | in most of the schools.There will be no excitement of |
| sometime now. A report stated few days back that | | | | sudden inspections by a crisply gait giving goose |
| Airlines are struggling with ‘weighty issues’ on | | | | pimples to the teachers as well as students. I think the |
| board. This issue will imperceptibly take other | | | | fun of teaching and learning will vanish with such |
| professions also into its realm. Thus it was a conscious | | | | weighty issues around. A whisper circulating from ear |
| decision on my part to choose a profession which will | | | | to ear in the class will be the only fun around and the |
| keep me on my toes so that I remain leaner all the | | | | perpetrators cannot be blamed either! It's more of a |
| while and I zeroed on to teaching which I consider as | | | | distraction for the students. On the other hand |
| much physical a job as mental .But to my amazement | | | | concerned teacher gets a chance to throw her weight |
| the erstwhile teachers I saw in my son’s school | | | | around instilling fear in her students.My boy often |
| were sizeable than any average fat person. All I could | | | | petrifies at the thought of his enormous teacher. He |
| remember was my social mam’ who was so leafy | | | | illustrates how the teacher alone can bring devastation |
| to be blown away by the wind .Even fattest maths | | | | in the class if she raised her voice helped by her bodily |
| mam’ was half the size of the Principal of son’s | | | | contours .For children of his age big is strong! For me |
| school. I think the reason for this obvious dichotomy is | | | | its good that my skinny kid has started binging on food |
| enhanced comfort in salaried class and over | | | | every time he recalls his mam’.Infact it handicaps a |
| dependency on mechanical modes of working, | | | | teacher in providing healthy food tips and need of |
| whatever may be the reason but it’s not good for | | | | physical exercise to her students.The only constructive |
| the health of the teachers as well as their students. | | | | purpose that can be solved in all this is demonstratiing |
| A Primary school head or for that matter any | | | | students how big can be the meaning of the word |
| head should be agile enough to be physically involved | | | | 'big' if they at all dare to utter the formidable. |
| in ‘whereabouts’ of its surroundings. It’s | | | | |