Musings of an Educator (Principal)

It is quite irresponsible on the part of China to keep Yuan weak and have an unfair advantage in the world market. With a weak Yuan, China is able to sell its commodities at throw away prices in the international market. It is affecting the demand for local producers of the world economies. It is also affecting the exports of other developing countries, making them handicapped in the international market and having comparative advantage. But this is what the powerful world economies have been doing when they are involved in their vested interest rather than the interests of the world economies. Even the US which boast off itself a savior of world economies its Federal Reserve is planning to go for printing more money to monetize its growing debts. There have been the protests of this likely move of US all over the world. This move will increase money supply in its economy or it will decrease the value of dollar which will enable us producers to sell their goods in international m...

US President Barack Obama expected G20 nations to discuss the modalities for balanced and sustained economic growth. His visit to Asian countries is a testimony to the fact that these nations are a great buyers of US goods and services and recovery of its economy. A balanced growth will be achieved when developed nations do away with the mindset of vested interest and go for equality in terms of lifting down all the hurdles for free flow of goods and services across the nations of the world.

It was an awesome performance by IISJ boys in the second phase of 20th CBSE Cluster Meet where 18 schools of Kingdom participated in different sport events under the category of 14,16 and 19 years. I on behalf of the IISJ teachers community congratulate all the participants and students in general. At the same time also wishes good luck for the students who are selected for playing at National Level back in India.

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.