Musings of an Educator (Principal)

Wishing all the students of IISJ best of luck for the first term examination commencing from 23 June 2010.

School and community have to play a vital role in overcoming the behavioral problems present among our teens in today’s scenario. School must have a professional educational counselor which is able to get on the root cause of the problems and offer corrective steps. Problematic teens have to be counseled individually by educational counselor in the school or by family members. Parents counseling in the field of conditioning of teens like listening to teens ideas and welcome their opinion and if there is a problem with their viewpoints suggest corrective measures what is right or wrong can also be effective. Teaching the teens about moral and ethical behavior which can be imparted only by giving religious talks and narrating the religious stories based on moral values.

It is quite depressing to see that present day’s youth are engulfed with umpteen behavioral problems like stealing, fighting, bullying, teasing, being disobedient and getting involved in watching pornographic videos and movies and sharing the same through modern day’s electronic gadgets. There have been number of factors responsible for this sorry behavior of our youths. Firstly, due to advancement of technology everything is in the reach of our youths without any censorship from elders, society and government. Secondly, both the parents have been involved in economic activities in the madness of accumulating wealth and thus spending less time with kids. They are unable to understand the problems of their own kids and put forward the solutions. Even if they are back from offices they are glued to satellite television or internet hardly spending any time for building a healthy and caring relationship between parents and kids. Even if there is any discussion on the dining table both of...

The fall out of the recent Israeli attack on Flotilla has come in the form of mounting pressure on it from all over the world be it nations or international organizations. Stopping the aid ship and killing the innocent peace activists is a cruel and inhuman act of this Zionist state. The world community has to aggravate its firm stand against Israel injustice and atrocities meted out to Gaza and Palestinians.