Changing mindsets...perspectives.....and all that...

I saw a very strange thing in school last 2 days....kids who cant read the word FRIEND yet...tied friendship bands to other people (including their teachers!)....strange how Archies has been able to reach out to even  kids in a municipal school in a small place as malvani! Well just so the kids realise what they are doing as a small gesture actually holds a alot more meaning, I have decided to celebrate Friendships Day in my class on Monday.....I have got little ribbons for them to tie to each other:)

Another eye-opening incident that happened in school was during the staff get-together that took place today...Municipal schools have last day of the month as half day.....So we TFI fellows organised a little get-together for our teachers on Saturday morning.....we knew that the teachers were being all nice to us but we also knew they had a lot of questions regarding what we are here for...So we started the session with giving our introductions.....and answering questions......Well it led to a huge discussion during which we realised that even though the staff members were being nice to us, but they were not comfortable with the idea of having us around.....each teacher in our school handles about 80-100 kids all alone and we are handling 80 kids between 2 fellows....they feel that our kids will be able to progress this way and they will have to face competition and being compared to us.... since these teachers have completed B.ed or D.ed, they also feel that people from other fields or those who have worked in the corporate world are not good enough to teach kids....they prefer having teachers who have degrees....These teachers have families to take care of and so much of administrative work that they are bound to lose it at times....While we fellows tried our best to empathise with them, we realised that it will take alot of time for us to change their mindsets....

The session continued with an activity and then refreshments for everyone....

Btw, I got a shock when after the meeting we saw a 3.5 ft long snake in school!!! yeah it was scary and disgusting!! I despise snakes to the core so will not write more on this!

Anyway, this is all I have for now....will write again soon!

Happy friendships day!:)