First Grade – Standing The Hall

 First Grade – Standing The Hall   

                                                      Chenyl Savageale

          This poem depicts a real picture of a classroom in which a poor student is punished by the teacher. By showing ill practice a punishment that poet strongly speaks for the reformative of the education system. In fact punishment has got negative effect on the learners and teaching learning system is incomplete with punishment.

          According to the poem the boy couldn’t read and the teacher threw him out side of the class. He stood there and remembers his grandmother who told him the stories but how she was at hospital. He wondered when she would be back at home. The boy knew that the letters told the stories but unfortunately he could not read them. Besides everyone pointed out him as a stupid and a hopeless and the principal punished him. He always waited for the bell to ring or the teacher calling him back in the class. Despite the punishment he still saw the sign port of hope looking at the spider webbing, its net and the sun making the life possible. He felt a kind of communication with them and felt himself distinct from him teacher.

          The poet may be trying to tell us that punishment never makes a student eager to learn. Besides a student's spill should not be measured in the narrow concept, there are obviously many skills. Through which a child can shape his future. It doesn’t necessarily mean that the child who can't read is really hopeless and stupid even if he is poor in studies he can do the best in other field. Therefore the child must be left to learn in the natural environment and according to his will.

·        This poem foregrounds the discussion about educational issues including literacy, oral versus writing tradition, bilingual education, minority students learning problems and disabilities, students punishment.

·        In this poem it is talked about the need for teacher to consider a student an individual. Different individuals have different interests background, intelligence. Imposition of any learning should be avoided. The students should be reflected in matters of creativity of their language, cultural background.

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