Private Schools’ Association of Jammu and Kashmir (PSAJK) Friday said that the recent viral video of a Kupwara school needs to be seen in its entirety including the background before jumping to conclusions and using it as a tool to harass schools and teachers.
The association, in a statement, said that the video hasbeen shown out of context and people need to know the entire truth beforedrawing conclusions.
“The reality is that there is a student who according to hisfather was getting into bad behaviour. The student was not listening to hisfather, wasn’t studying, was into fighting and there was danger of the studentfalling into a bad company/habits. Despite his many attempts the father wasunable to teach him manners. So as a last resort he approached a teacher tohelp him in this matter,” said G N Var, chairman PSAJK. “In the tuitionclassroom, everybody was there. The person who was shown holding an axe was noteven teacher. He was a painter, who had left the school many months back. Sowhere does the question of teacher threatening student arises?”
Showing of axe is undoubtedly going too far, which shouldn’thave happened, he said.
The statement said a delegation of PSAJK headed by ZonalPresident Shahnawaz Lone recently visited Bright Future Educational InstituteWagat Handwara to ascertain the facts.
“The video was made by the Ex-teacher Jahangeer Ahmad Ratherin the month of February 2019 during winter vacations. The person having Axe inthe hand (in Video) is an assistant and was working as a peon cum helper inwinter tuition Academy. However he is a painter by profession and is no more inthe school. He had left the school few months back,” it read.
“The father of the student also gave a statement statingthat he had asked the teacher to take such a step so that his son becomesdisciplined,” claimed the statement.
The PSAJK has condemned the harassment of teachers andschool authorities in the name of this video. “This is an irony. Police havearrested principal and chairman of the school, who have nothing to do with it.They were on holidays when the incident happened. And the incident happened inprivate tuitions and not in any working school classroom,” said Var. “There areproper channels at different levels where such complaint has to be tackled. Theschool discipline committee or the Zonal education department was neverapproached.”