Schools are supposed to be temples of learning, creativity, and growth. But the truth is harsher than we like to admit: most schools today are factories, designed to produce obedient, rule-following humans rather than free thinkers. https://unbiasedpollkhol.com/
Heavy bags back pain starts early in Schools.
Teachers always tell students to bring books and notebooks; they don’t care about students. A class is on 3rd floor, climbing every single day with heavy bags, just to get to my class is a punishment. It gets worse when the admissions are done claiming schools have SMART BOARDS, then what’s stopping teachers to use them, why do they need loads of books in our bags. Why cannot we save trees by using pdf versions of books. Why are we always forced not to use the lift and use stairs only with 5-7 kilograms of books and notebooks on our backs. Don’t students have back pain from carrying all that weight?
Albert Einstein and his thinking about schools
Even Albert Einstein, the genius himself, said that “School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like sergeants. I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn only for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. This was a Catholic School in Munich. I felt that my thirst for knowledge was being strangled by my teachers; grades were their only measurement. https://askfilo.com/user-question-answers-smart-solutions/write-a-short-paragraph-on-einstein-at-school
Issues about Indian schools.
I would like to acknowledge that schools are much more authoritarian about their uniforms than about their knowledge. Every time you come into school, the first thing the teachers always do is “today is sports uniform day, why are you wearing a non-sports uniform? Why are you wearing black shoes today? Why haven’t you made two braids? You will be punished for this.
And the washrooms, don’t even talk about it. Suppose if we have 300+ students on one floor and there are only two washrooms. During lunch time, students avoid going to the washroom because it is too crowded.
Different Schools, Different Names Same Problems
We are instructed that boys and girls possess distinct biological differences, and consequently, their issues are also dissimilar; by asserting this, they dismiss our concerns entirely. However, in truth, the majority of these problems are fundamentally the same, merely referred to by different terms.
Teachers and sometimes parents too, think that students are supposed to be “perfect” “perfect marks” “perfect attendance” “perfectly disciplined”. But that isn’t the case. All of us have our own unique talents and yes, most of them are silenced.
If a girl talks too much and likes to make people laugh, she is “in disciplined”
If a boy talks too much, he has a “bad behaviour”
If a girl is quiet, teachers say she has “no confidence”
If a boy is quiet and shy, teacher say he has “attitude”
So, no matter what you do, groom your personality is, it’s wrong.
Both boys and girls are constantly told how to sit, talk, behave, study and how not to be themselves. That isn’t called discipline, it’s called control.
Teachers also shout every single time that a student doesn’t get a “simple” thing even if it is complicated to them. This causes public humiliation which in turn, causes other students to think that the student asking the doubt is “dumb”. Teachers don’t explain the doubt; they just shout at the students. And you know what no one talks about? The stress that it starts to build for the student, to fit in, to not to be “dumb”.
Lack of proper sports facilities
Sports period JUST exists. But guess what, almost every week, our sports periods are cancelled, why? Because a fellow teacher took the period for her/his “revision” or the teacher of sports just cannot take our sports period or he/she is absent. This infuriates almost every student, because with education, sports and fitness is also very important. Even if the sports period is taken by the teacher, when students come back to class, they aren’t given enough time to rest after all that running around. Teachers are already there saying “take out your books, we need to finish this chapter today else syllabus would not be completed.”
What students want ?
We, students, don’t want girls to be treated special or boys to be treated worse. We just want STUDENTS to be treated like equals and have clean washrooms or at least be sure of how many students the school can keep and to make sure that it’s not overcrowded. We want dedicated sports and other extra curriculum activities. We also want to use lifts and have less books. We want our opinion to be counted. We want to be free, not minions.
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6 Mar 2026, Written by Siddhangna (Student of 7th Class)
Yes, you are absolutely right, if schools have smartboard then why to ask students to bring all books