Sunday Series 3: When Strictness Dies
Sunday Series: Part 3 - When Strictness Dies A Teacher’s Unspoken Turning Point Opening: The Day Something Breaks Every teacher enters the profession with two invisible tools: Hope and authority . Hope that students will understand. Authority to guide them when they don’t. But there comes a day - silent, sudden, irreversible - when authority does not fail publicly, it dies privately . Not because the teacher was wrong. Not because discipline was unjust. But because power stepped in where pedagogy once lived. This is the story of that day. And it is not one teacher’s story. It belongs to many. The Incident: Discipline Meets Power She was an honest, soft-spoken, committed teacher. The kind who stayed back after class, the kind who corrected notebooks with care, the kind who believed discipline was protection, not punishment. One day, a highly mischievous boy — Arun (name changed) — crossed limits repeatedly. Warnings failed. Counselling failed. Patience thinned. In a moment ...