I don’t want promotion, says school teacher

DHNS

• Sarojamma prefers being a teacher to a headmistress

Kolar Gold Field, 02 September 2010: Reasoning that a headmistress will have to focus more on administration than on the students, a teacher has refused promotion. Having been in the profession for the last 36 years, Sarojamma prefers to continue working as an educator. 

 
Several people doubted the ability of a five-year-old Government School student to recite English rhymes, parts of the body as well as Nali-Kali poems and stories.

A Kannada teacher, Sarojamma, however, has succeeded in helping the Bethamangala Government Higher Primary School students give a fitting reply to such people.

She has thereby shown that it is indeed possible to groom children to speak in both English and Kannada, even better than English medium private schools.

Higher authorities have lauded Sarojamma’s efforts in laying excellent foundation for the growth of little children in the School. As if in response, she now teaches students from I to III Standard, having stopped teaching in the higher primary classes.

Sarojamma draws a crowd of children wherever she goes. When asked how children manage to turn extremely active barely a couple of months after joining school, “Students joining school should first be given activities to perform. They should be made to listen to their teachers. Only then is it possible to teach them anything,” Sarojamma replies with years of experience.

“Besides, children learn better and are more active after a good round of midday meal,” she added.