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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