Wednesday, April 18, 2007
pressurized kid
Sumthing which happend last night brought me to the light. I was teaching my tuition
kid, a primary one kid, Kalai Kumar. I gave him a worksheet and made him to it all by himself. Even thou he kept asking me questions on the words he could not make out i still didnt answer him. Instead i jus keep tellin him to do it himself. He managed to struggle
through and answer the questions. After which i marked what he did, not too bad he had gotten
4 questions right out of 6. Which i do think is good effort made, considering his abit
weak in English. Then i asked him to turn to the next page. However, the boy suddenly blanked
out. He didn't wana change the page instead he was just staring at page and mumbling kept
to himself. I prompted him to repeat himself coz i didnt hear him right. Suddenly his eyes turned red, lips were pouting out and tears started rolling down his cheeks. He was saying.
"Kalai Kumar duno anything! Kalai Kumar dunno anything! Kalai Kumar duno anything!"
I was so shocked that suddenly without warning his breaking down, coz it has neva hit to me that he was disturbed in his mind. After soothing him, i found out that his frens had teased him in school. His command in English is rather weak, hence his nt able to read properly. As a result of that even if he knows how to do certain stuffs, he is not able to understand what the question is actually asking him and how he is supposed to write out the answers. Hence during his previous class test he did not do well. His teacher who were hoping that he would at least pass his maths, was disappointed. His pretty good in maths as compared to English.
What drove me up to the wall was his frens, they made fun of him coz he was the last ranking in his class. Demoralized him by sayin that next year he would confirm be assigned to 2L. Which in his school is the last class of pri 2, for poor and very slow students. This incident happened like last month, but the poor kid had suppressed it in his hart all these while. No one else knows
that such a thing happened apart from me. That every moment when he broke down really
disturbed me. I felt like as if my own child was in this situation. At such a tender age
his actually going through alot of mental stress. Its not easy to boost up someone's esteem
when all those around them are looking down and always saying negative thoughts.
I have vow to myself to help him make through the upcoming exams. Thou its like in less then a month from now i hope i can help him to prove and show to the kids who made fun of him, tt he too can make it. His also smart and can is capable of achieving better grades then the other kids out there who had nothing else to do but tease him.Kalai Kumar darlings, hold on boy, u can do it :)
the world will turn WILD.
11:40 AM
