The incident of Chennai student stabbing to death his teacher has raised pertinent questions on the changing psyche of teenaged students.
A Chennai student stabbing to death his teacher has shocked the entire country. The incident has raised pertinent questions on the changing psyche of teenaged students, with growing frustration and lowered tolerance level pushing them to the edge. DNA spoke to psychology and teaching professionals to understand the reasons behind their violent spurts.
Analysing the “extreme” incident, Arundhati Chavan, president of parents and teachers association, recalled how some unhealthy acts of students venting out frustration on teachers have taken place in Mumbai too. “There was a case in the city when a Class X student slapped his teacher during the farewell celebration for harassing him all through his high school years. Similarly, a Class V student threatened the teacher of dire consequences after he felt insulted about being scolded in front of the class. In fact, the student, in his attempt to scare the teacher, called his friends from Class XII during the lunch break. The principal had to intervene and settle the matter.”
Pointing out the lowered tolerance level of kids, Chavan said, “Considering the total lack of discipline among children, parents need to play a crucial role in preventing it. But parents are either busy with something else or they do not have control on their children.”
About the vulnerable condition of teenagers, professor Vijay Jamsandekar, a professional counsellor, said, “Teenagers go through intellectual fatigue due to the several physical and psychological changes, which commonly heightens feelings of introversion, irritation and insult. Hence, it is really important for elders to understand how to behave with them.” He refrained from generalising without specific details of the case.
Although he does not reject the chance of a Chennai-like incident being duplicated by any other student, Dr Harish Shetty, a professional psychiatrist, is of the view that one should not take the gory act too seriously, as “from the crores of students, this is just one incident” and it will be wrong to generalise that it is the trend nowadays.
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