55-year-old teacher gets bullied during online class; heartbreaking incident goes viral
Tribune Web Desk
Chandigarh, July 16
In a heartbreaking incident, a 55-year-old teacher being bullied by students during a zoom class has gone viral.
An Instagram account, Ted The Stoner shared a picture discussing the teacher’s ordeal. It sheds a light on the teaching patterns that have changed during the pandemic. It has also created a lot of pressure on teachers.
The post read:
“This definitely deserved a share. Read, understand, implement. Trolling ≠ bullying. You can be funny without hurting someone
Principal suddenly called the 55 year old teacher and told him to learn how to take class online. He doesn’t have much to say as he knows that if he denies he will be laid off, at this age in this situation he can’t do any other job, to pay for his family he has no choice.
Unwillingly he takes his smart phone to his daughter. His daughter helped him to understand the basic of Zoom, his hands often shake to go around the tabs, he often freezes trying to understand how this thing works but he has no choice.
The next day he goes to a market to buy a new white board. The price of these small board soared up, but without these how can he take the class? He took the board in a rickshaw and came home. Placed the board in a chair and started practicing the lesson. It was harder than he thought, staring at a camera and teaching but he has no choice.
The next day he wore a new shirt, will be seeing his students after one and half month, his daughter helped him to setup the smart phone, and the students were added and the class went on. He was shaky, his voice cracked every now and then he was nervous but he has no choice.
Suddenly an unknown ID started using slang at him, the F word, the A word, open threats. He couldn’t understand how should he react, he shouted out of anger and embarrassment, a teacher is being humulated infront of his students. His life work of earning respect from his students seemed to vanish in seconds. His daughter taught him to mute students but the student could unmute himself, the student kept on using slangs and he did it for entertainment. The only thing the teacher could do was to end the class, as he has no choice.
He called for his daughter, she came running and saw her father in tears, she held him tightly tried to calm him down but he kept crying as he never faced such humiliation in his life. That he had troubled sleeping that night, as he knew the next day he has to wake up and face the same ordeal as he has no choice.
Note: Abusing a teacher doesn’t make you cool, It makes you sick.
Credits: Syed Mohamad Fahim/FB.”
This post left the internet teary-eyed and even managed to garner over 1.6 lakh likes.
The account discussed how teacher are trying to adapt in these tough times like any of us during these changing times.
