Teachers’ Day events across city to amplify call for justice
Times of India | 6 September 2024
12 Kolkata: Several prominent city schools are using the Teachers’ Day platform to impart valuable life lessons to students, emphasizing issues related to respecting the opposite gender and being responsible citizens. A number of schools in and around the city have also kept Teachers’ Day programmes low-key.
DPS Newtown has skipped its cultural programme scheduled on Thursday while St Augustine’s Day School, Shyamnagar, will organise a low-key event on the theme “You are the Light of the World”.
The state school education department had deferred its Teachers’ Day celebration considering the current situation. While state-run schools also have Teachers’ Day programmes at their respective institutes, most have skipped cultural programmes.
Senior students of Jadavpur Vidyapith will take classes of junior students, which is the tradition the school follows, followed by a ceremony for the best teacher’s award. Headmaster Partha Pratim Baidya said, “Students are the future teachers so they must have strong values, which we want to induce through this event. There will be a strong message to remind them of their duties to the society and to be good human beings.” Scottish Church Collegiate School principal Bibhas Sanyal said they will have a special prayer service followed by a speech on to “respecting each other and women”.
St Augustine’s Day School, Shyamnagar, principal Rodney Borneo said, “We are conducting a special prayer service where students will organise the whole thing. The teachers have a responsibility to build future generations, which we will explain through the theme.” DPS Newtown School headmistress Rahi Mukhopadhyay said they had a special plan for Teachers’ Day after good results in ICSE and ISC but have now cancelled the cultural programme. “We will have only one special assembly for the children to tell them to respect all, understand others’ emotions and be good human beings,” Mukhopadhyay said.
Indus Valley World School is not organising any event this year as half-yearly exams are underway. “This year, we have given a holiday due to exams but we are not even in the right frame of mind to conduct an event,” said vice-principal Priyadarshinee Guha.
On Wednesday, Harrow Hall School Park Street had an event to celebrate Teachers’ Day and Founder’s Day, where teachers held a dance performance to stand in solidarity with the call for justice in the RG Kar rape-murder case.