Open Letter to a Teacher

Disclaimer: Dear reader, if "somehow" you turn out to be my teacher then by no means this letter is written by me. I copied it from the link stated in the end. 

Dear Teacher,

How have you been? I hope everything is good. Although nothing is at my end, majorly because of the project on Robotics that has to be submitted to you by this week. It is giving me sleepless nights. In case you still have not guessed, I am a second year student in your institute. I have somehow gathered some courage to write this letter to you with an anonymous name so that you cannot deduct 5 marks from my internals, again. Although I would have loved to write with my name but I cannot risk losing anymore marks.

I want to divert your assiduity on what actually pupil think. However, before that I would like to tell you that the whole college knows about your affair with Mr. Sharma, our Physics lab assistant. I hereby request you to stop hiding it, and oh BTW you both are so perfect for each other, both with pessimistic thoughts towards your own "humble" students.

Coming back to the topic, this is what I want you to know:

There are two types of teacher in this world.

1. The good ones

2. The mean ones

Nevertheless, you fall in the rarest category the cruelly mean ones. Curious, which ones are these? Ah! Rarest.

Well, we the students have zero affinity towards the methodology of your teaching and always curse the way they check the papers. You brutally deduct marks and nothing ...NOTHING not even our tears move you. We believe that you allot marks based on the class performance, which is wrong. You gave me five marks out of 30 due to low attendance, ignoring the fact that despite your brutal checking I managed to pass, somehow.

You are bias to the ones who “serve” you to those who choose to ignore your tea demand in between the lecture. You sound so blatant during the lectures that we prefer listening to Metallica, even they sound much more pleasant than you. Engineering is not a child’s play and we are not even a prodigy hence good internal marks are prerequisite to clear the external examination. "You treat us like congressional representatives even though we strictly oppose them" (It is a metaphor in case you misunderstood me). 


No course of action is been taken on our letters directing administration toward the kind of behaviour shown by you. Either letters were scarce or a electronics teacher is not available anywhere. Due to this, we have to relinquished writing letters and have to come up with something against your crotchety (euphemism). Preens by you are on crescendo and frankly, we are not mature enough to comprehend boasting you flaunt. It is a delight to you but turmoil for us.

How to improve –

Yeah right, I will give you suggestions and I hope you do pay some heed to them. There are a variety of measures, which can be taken by you to halt the fear.

#1. Understanding your students, as humans and as frustrated engineering students

#2. The policy of “giving” – obviously marks.

#3. No commotion if one suffers from low attendance.

#4. Not being a sexist.

#5. Not calling parents and complaining them.


Hence, I request you to, please mull over the unanimous class voice. I hope you will change and adapt some human friendly methods while teaching. Until then we will continue bunking your lectures or listening to Metallica in your classes

Thank you.

Yours sincerely

Anonymous 

(No Offence, no, seriously)

| This post was first written for The EP!C Magazine — "Ensemble of Plainly Idiosyncratic Citizens" Magazine. Original piece can be read here.