Just came across this piece of news on Times of India, Kolkata edition today. Two students who had appeared this year's Higher Secondary examination had committed suicide just because they were not satisfied with the marks they had secured!!
As I look back, it makes me wonder, 'what is wrong with today's children?' During my schooling years, failure rates were much higher. Securing 70% in HS was considered good.
Even in our times, people used to fail their examinations; in many homes, parents would be disheartened; some even had to suffer abuse (mental and/or physical) but still, after everything, children would eventually cope up. They would again come out of their house and join their friends. Some would again fail the supplementary exams and they would write the exams next year. But such things as suicide because of unhappiness with exam result was unheard of, so Infrequent was suicide rate in such case.
But these days, everywhere you see, you'll come across students taking the extreme step just because something didn't go according to their wish.
Are our children becoming immature? Or are they becoming victims to the failed and/or limitless aspirations of their guardians? Is it peer pressure? Internet and connectivity?
These days, a lot of children have easy access to internet with a lot of parents having no idea what their kids are getting exposed to. A series of suicides after the blue whale game is an example. Most of the parents had no idea what their kids had been doing online untill it was too late.
Probably we need to educate ourselves more, be more informed about the changing trends in the society over the past 2 decades and be more sensible to our kids to prevent such mishaps.
As I look back, it makes me wonder, 'what is wrong with today's children?' During my schooling years, failure rates were much higher. Securing 70% in HS was considered good.
Even in our times, people used to fail their examinations; in many homes, parents would be disheartened; some even had to suffer abuse (mental and/or physical) but still, after everything, children would eventually cope up. They would again come out of their house and join their friends. Some would again fail the supplementary exams and they would write the exams next year. But such things as suicide because of unhappiness with exam result was unheard of, so Infrequent was suicide rate in such case.
But these days, everywhere you see, you'll come across students taking the extreme step just because something didn't go according to their wish.
Are our children becoming immature? Or are they becoming victims to the failed and/or limitless aspirations of their guardians? Is it peer pressure? Internet and connectivity?
These days, a lot of children have easy access to internet with a lot of parents having no idea what their kids are getting exposed to. A series of suicides after the blue whale game is an example. Most of the parents had no idea what their kids had been doing online untill it was too late.
Probably we need to educate ourselves more, be more informed about the changing trends in the society over the past 2 decades and be more sensible to our kids to prevent such mishaps.
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