SCHOOL

SreeKumar K

 

School teaches us a lot, especially when you are back there as a teacher.

Ours was a small school which actually had a primary section of less  than 60 kids. 

On birthdays, the toffees were distributed only from the dining hall. And then some smart ones would beg off a toffee from a teacher and proclaim that he got an extra one from the dining hall, just to create trouble, not just trouble, a world war.

Thus, one day we were told not to share our toffees with any kid.

The next day.

Milan, aged a mighty six, runs towards me.

"SK sir, SK sir, did you get a toffee?"

Hiding my toffee clumsily but quickly I say no.

Whereupon, he offers me his toffee, mauling, quartering, grinding, shredding me, killing me and my pride as an adult in just a second.

Watch out, the lessons may be too hard for you!

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