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My School Story | Sports - The physical education with no physical activity

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I don't know what it was, in the name of the school, maybe a better place to find friends, at which I was not good at though. But I don't think having new friends was the intention of my family while they sent me to that place. It was nice and beautiful also expensive, which is understandable as our government has the great failed and crumbled public education system, which itself leads to the tragic life event of my life, but it's Ok. We will talk about this in the future, maybe.

But just to set a picture of my school in your mind, I only want to share a meeting with our principle.

It was the year 2017, three students of class 12th took the responsibility to represent their class and draw a very significant issue to their honorable principle, sorry, The Director, at least they thought it was that serious. Allow me to give you some ideas about three of them.
Three furious students, full of confidence, slightly aggressive and ready to take arrows on the chest (for the class of-course, a fun fact which ultimately happened), were two young girls and a guy.

We go to our principle, my apology, she was The Director. Believe me or not, this is not my fault, in that school, there were two vice-principles, a principle, and a director, we never got to know in our whole school life which one does what, so if we had no idea who was the suitable person to talk. It's Ok if there were not enough well-trained teaching staff, but the administrative staff was sufficient, maybe more than enough. But that's fine let's come to our issue.

The issue was that we were not getting enough physical education periods. Sometimes, the so-called prime subject teachers like physics, chemistry, and mathematics used to take our games/ physical education period. So we did reach the beautiful glass door office of The Director with a dedicated fridge of her own, doesn't matter if the water available to drink for students was drinkable or not. Because a permanent alga was there in the water cooler and water tank for Students, possibly, they wanted us to have more oxygenated water, who knows. But, we mostly did drink and fill our water bottles directly from the submersible, which was there to water the grounds. Maybe, so that, students cant play there.

So we told The Director about the issue. She listens to us very calmly, and we become more confident. Because we were on strike, But when she comes on strike, she hit very long fours and sixes and changed the game entirely, and we defeated.

She started asking about our studies, and we were surprised?
We were not ready for that. Let me tell you well before in advance that we were among the top scorers of the class. She asked one student how much do you study and let me tell you she got a headshot. After exaggerating her answer was, "Ma'am, I study for 2 hours additional to the tuition classes". And the director got erupted, she was like "what only 2 hours and don't count tuition time, this I did not expected from a you". She keeps on yelling, I thought she would get a heart attack after so much yelling, but unfortunately, that doesn't happen. It now turned to the next warrior from us. She adds one more hour to the routine told by the previous one. The same thing happened to her, But a little less. Now it was my turn, and I know by now that how can I escape alive from here. I not only need not lie but a big lie, and I was like, "Ma'am, after reaching home, I take rest. I then complete my homework and then go for self-study for 3 hours or more".

I did skip telling her about the tuition because she was in opposition it and I know that if I tell her about this, she will go mad as she did with others. By the time you must be thinking that she was the good one and tuition is not considered as beneficial for a child's mental health. But before that, let me tell you she did not have any issues with coaching. But the place where we go. Those were the teachers who used to teach us our class 11th and then left school. Our Chairman had an obsession with changing teachers due to which we had to struggle in coping with a new one every time. 

So after listening to my routine, she was like, "No, this is not enough. You have to study more and more." And we all were thinking, why is she reacting on this even after exaggerating so much? If we would have told how much we study in real. She must have killed us this time. But soon we come to know. She said that she had a daughter. She keeps studying for 11 hours and in class 9th. She started construction bridges of her praise.

And we all were like why?
Give her some life. She is not living life.

At last, all confident people were down-headed, humiliated, and dejected. The result of all this was we were not allowed to go to the ground for a longer time. The only purpose of that school was to fabricate us to memorizing some chemical equations mathematical formulas and derivation and physics. 

I ask, why is it so?  Why they want us to purchase separate tracksuit and shoes. If we somehow were unable to wear that. They spot us in the morning assembly queue or stop us at the entry gate of the school. Mark us as Uniform defaulters. Make us stand separate from the rest of the assembly to highlight us. They make us feel humiliated, and harass us daily in the morning in the name of sports Uniform and ask why did you fail to wear or purchase and punish us, embarrass our parents on the phone call. 

But who will ask them, why did you fail to give us proper sports time? 
Why did you fail to provide us proper sports equipment? 
Why was there not even a proper first aid kit in the school?
How can we expect a doctor? 
Who will punish them? 
It is just one incident from my 15 years of school life. More will come soon.
Thank you for reading this and investing your time.

kuch rat li kitabein 

kuch akshar seekh gya

bade hone ki chaht m

saara bachpan beet gya

The fun fact is that I scored 86 marks in physical education in my board's exam, and I don't even know even a single sport to play.

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