Teacher Series: Valuable lessons learned!
Valuable lessons learned! Many years ago, in an international school, there was this teacher from another country who taught in the secondary school. I was in charge of middle years and she reported to me. Every morning the national anthem would play and she would just walk without paying any heed to it. All of us would freeze and be statues, but this teacher would continue walking to wherever she was going. There would be students who would try to get to their class and I would gesture to them to stand and wait till the anthem was over, and in front of these students, the teacher would be merrily walking, not paying any heed to the anthem. Now I know that technically, the teacher does not need to pay attention to the anthem as she is not a local teacher and is from another country. But I thought to myself, "If I were in another country and if the locals stood up as a mark of respect when the anthem was playing, I would do the same. If the locals' way of showing respect was s...