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.

I would like to congratulate all the 12th standard students of IISJ for achieving excellence in board examination. Your perseverance and dedication paid off. . Keep it up! And Get yourself prepared for the challenges coming ahead in your life and career.

On 16th May 2010 there is another deadliest Naxalist attack in Dantewada where more than 40 were killed including cops. Naxalism has been troubling Indian government for over four decades killing more than 10,000 people. The gravity of the problem can be understood where 16 out of 28 states are baffling with local terrorism. Majority of them are the poorer states. In fact Indian prime minister called this a major threat to country’s security. The reasons for uprising insurgency is the process of economic liberalization of the government where the rights of underprivileged, untouchables and marginalized people have been violated by taking land from them in the name of development by transnational corporations and industrialist ,the trials whom land pieces of land were taken still deprived for the rehabilitation. Grinding poverty is the root cause for new incumbent to join naxalism. Bahukutumbi Raman, a former head of the counter-terrorism division of India's external intelligence a...

There was a report in one of the leading newspapers of Saudi Arabia that 87% of employees in private sector are expatriates, now the question arises why private sector is attracted to foreign manpower? The reason is obvious foreign workers have been able to do all kinds of jobs but Saudi youths are reluctant to do jobs but selective ones and moreover they lack the professionalism they consider it low on the one hand lack attitude and refuse to put in their cent percent efforts and able to reduce the cost to firms and thus firms are able to earn more profits. Saudi being a wealthy economy is unable to control unemployment rate among its youth despite of government policy of Saudization. There seemed to be a mismatch between skills supplied versus skills required. Lack of work ethics and skills among Saudi youth is another cause for rising unemployment. The Saudi government is quite determined to reverse the situation by allocating a lion’s share of the current budget on education. Thi...