It was an extremely sweltering hot afternoon. I started my class with the three kids from a fairly big family. The kitchen was too noisy for me to conduct my class actually but I had adapted to this teaching atmosphere and as usual I started to teach their youngest sister Emily and later his two elder brothers John and Jack in turn. I was quite comfort with her demurely manner.
John is a retarded child since he was born. He is still learning the very simple calculation of a year one's child and had difficulty in learning ABC. His brother is even worse off than him. Besides the mathematics that puzzling him forever, he has a very unusual habit that is he would sharpen his pencils up to two dozens before my class ended and he always lost his stationary or belongings after each school's day. He even past motion or urine in front of his classmates. I was once get annoyed when I accidentally stepped on his faeces. I personally considered myself a thoughtful and diligent teacher. I tried my best to open the generation-gap between us. I wish and try to keep on loving them .
But today is a very unusual day . I blamed the hot weather that aroused his suspicion and despised his ability in the calculation given to him. He hanged my explanation and continued to ignore my teaching even though I hauled them over the coals. For nearly and hour , no sum nor words were written. Visibly the papers and his mind was blank too. In my mind, I am paid to conduct this class and I have to finish my designated assignments with them to be said as a diligent teacher.
Without hesitation, I canned John's brother and he who seemed to be caring of his younger brother Jack started to mutter in a low voice complaining that I shouldn't beat his brother. On hearing his grumble, his mother who has mentally-illness too approached him and started to tease his son saying that he doesn't has the ability to do such an easy sum at the age of 17. She said she will haul him into the renegade reformation centre as soon as our class ended. She intimidated him with her harsh and remarkably demented tone.
The situation came worst when his granny joined in the delusion of sending him to the centre. She even dialed the phone in a haughty manner pretending that she was trying to contact the person in charge of the centre.
A deluge of the poor child's furious turns the atmosphere into a frigid and frightful way when he suddenly rushed into the kitchen with his hand holding a knife. He shrieked out with his highest tone and shouted: " Why did you can my brother, teacher? Don't you know that he will certainly feel a tonne of pain, don't you! If you can him again, I'll certainly chopped your head off and I promised."
From his shivering admonishing tone, I knew that he is afraid too. I know its time for me to act immediately before any unfortunate experience occur and I snatched away the knife and orded him to sit down before I chopped his head down. I repeated the words he told me.I continued my class for another half an hour. I tried to calmed myself but my heart was pounding heavily and rapidly. I dared not shout at them nor stared at them anymore.The boy was surprised to see my calm and frivolous manner.
I can say it was the most unforgettable but easiest time of my teaching experience because I need not teach them to write or to spell the ABC but four of us kept on scrawling on the paper without uttering any words. I secretly peed on him and I was truly touched from his blinking eyes with tears rolling down his cheeks when he closed the door before I left . He had predicted that I won't teach him nor talking to him anymore. I am his 5th teacher for the past few years.Close relationship between us had visibly vanished to the air after this incident.
The tuition class discontinued for nearly three months and was resumed after I received his father entreatment later. Wisdom comes from experience. I dare not can nor shout at any of my students especially three of them but treated them as my own children although I was already depicted as a soft-spoken and considerate private tutor.
I managed my class with them for another four years before they ended their school life. I had once considered it was such a scary moment in my life but now I knew that it wasn't but it was a golden chance for me to turn on my new leaf as a caring teacher. Thank you very much John and Jack to give such an opportunity for me.
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