A woman was working as teacher in a school where her son was also studying in the 5th standard. She did not teach her son’s section, but taught in other sections of primary section. She had a desire to see her son score high marks in all the exams. Her son was an average student and was not getting the scores as expected by her. So, in order to achieve her objective, she slowly developed a habit of seeing the question paper prepared by the teachers for her son’s class and then she prepared her son for exactly those questions. As a result her son started getting almost full marks in the exams.
This was gradually noticed by other teachers as they observed that her son was not so well in answering the questions in class. Then how come he was getting full marks in all the exams? They started discussing amongst themselves about this teacher’s behavior and wondered what should be done to stop this practice. They started avoiding sharing the question paper with her on some pretext or other by saying ‘it is still under preparation’ or ‘it is sent to the supervisor’ for approval etc. However, this did not deter her from her quest of knowing the question paper. She started going to the Xerox machine room to get a copy when the office boy was making copies for the exam. On one occasion she even searched the bag of the maths teacher, which was kept in the staff room, in her absence, to see the question paper.
All her colleagues started hating her for her this habit. However, more they tried to prevent showing the question paper to her, more she started getting desperate to see the paper. It was like an addiction for her. A drug addict becomes desperate to get drugs and is ready to do anything including selling himself. Her love for her son and her strong desire to see her son score full marks in Maths made her oblivious of the change in behavior of other teachers towards her. She was totally unaware of what others thought about her.
Now, who is at fault in this story? Is it the child or his teacher-mother or other teachers?
The child is innocent. He is not doing it by himself. He is being provided the question paper before the exams by his mother. And he is enjoying scoring full marks. He is too young to understand the ethics and morals. Moreover, since his mother is aiding him in this exercise, his little mind assumes that it must be good. He is in danger of developing a self-confidence based on unethical and superficial grounds. He is more likely to not only fail, but get depressed in future whenever this arrangement stops.
The teacher-mother is the main culprit on several accounts. First of all, she is making her child weak. The son is getting habituated to write an exam only if he knows the question paper in advance. He would be at a total loss, to write the exam without knowing paper in advance. She is spoiling her son’s future. Secondly, she is damaging her reputation as a person in the school. Other teachers lost respect for her and they started hating her for her this attributes.
The other teachers also deserve some blame by not letting the teacher-mother know that they all know about her such behavior. They were just straining their working relationship with her without letting her know the reason for the same. And ironically, she continued to wonder why were all teachers behaving erratically with her while she has been so nice with all of them always?
In life, many times, people get so possessed by a certain desire that they just blindly pursue their desires without any thoughts about other things like reputation, morality, ethics etc. And then one day, when they get exposed, they only repent for their behavior and regret for their actions. However, it is too late by then. If only people had wisdom to think at every stage whether they were on a right track or not, the world would be a much better place to live in.
Unfortunately, in today’s world, every sinner pretends to be a saint till he is caught… and often, morality is practiced due to lack of opportunity.
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