My Big Fat Mam’!

ARTICLE  :MY BIG FAT MAM’!     With every fifth person in our society turning obese, ‘Fat’ is a fact that is girdling around for sometime now. A report stated few days back that Airlines are struggling with ‘weighty issues’ on board. This issue will imperceptibly take other professions also into its realm. Thus it was a conscious decision on my part to choose a profession which will keep me on my toes so that I remain leaner all the while and I zeroed on to teaching which I consider as much physical a job as mental .But to my amazement the erstwhile teachers I saw in my son’s school were sizeable than any average fat person. All I could remember was my social mam’ who was so leafy to be blown away by the wind .Even fattest maths mam’ was half the size of the Principal of son’s school. I think the reason for this obvious dichotomy is enhanced comfort in salaried class and over dependency on mechanical modes of working, whatever may be the reason but it’s not good for the health of the teachers as well as their students.   A Primary school head or for that matter any head should be agile enough to be physically involved in ‘whereabouts’ of its surroundings. It’s more important for primary school teachers to be able to play and have fun with the students.  I am afraid with such bag and baggage they could hardly move to the third floor of the school building as lifts are fancy in most of the schools.There will be no excitement of sudden inspections by a crisply gait giving goose pimples to the teachers as well as students. I think the fun of teaching and learning will vanish with such weighty issues around. A whisper circulating from ear to ear in the class will be the only fun around and the perpetrators cannot be blamed either! It's more of a distraction for the students. On the other hand concerned teacher gets a chance to throw her weight around instilling fear in her students.My boy often petrifies at the thought of his enormous teacher. He illustrates how the teacher alone can bring devastation in the class if she raised her voice helped by her bodily contours .For children of his age big is strong! For me its good that my skinny kid has started binging on food every time he recalls his mam’.Infact it handicaps a teacher in providing healthy food tips and need of physical exercise to her students.The only constructive purpose that can be solved in all this is demonstratiing students how big can be the meaning of the word 'big' if they at all dare to utter the formidable.