School days are here again

After two months of fun and frolic, school days are back with a bang. The hectic Mondays, harrowing homework, class monitors, PT periods,...

After two months of fun and frolic, school days are back with a bang. The hectic Mondays, harrowing homework, class monitors, PT periods, morning assemblies, the school teams, quiz classes8230; are all here again. Within a couple of weeks, the summer holidays will become a distant memory, covered with the reality of school days, every day, five days a week. Moms and dads are already struggling with book-lists and uniforms.

The school corridors humming with activity, giggles and laughter tinkling along the stairways, an errant student hanging about the principal8217;s office, hoping to gather enough courage to face an imminent scolding, a sudden ringing shout of a harassed teacher, over class unruliness, these and others are the scenes one encounters, the few scenes that never fade with age.

Students will soon have to rise from the stupor of holidays and face long complex syllabi, the prospect of another terminal examination within a couple of months and the continuous stream of class tests in between. But before all that, what about the excitement of choosing new labels to don the freshly-covered textbooks and notebooks, peeping into the new books every now and then and taking a breath of their unique new8217; fragrance, wanting to read all those rapid-reading literature books at once. The atmosphere vibrates with excitement, all kinds of excitement!

The first day, the d-day, the day for which the kids have been mentally preparing themselves for weeks. The eagerness to know which teachers one has been entrusted with for particular subjects, and the accompanying elation or groan, whichever is the case, to ponder about the various sections close friends are being put to, to discuss at length who could and should not be the class monitor, these and other thoughts zoom in and out of every kid8217;s mind. Then comes the timetable, another item of utmost importance. The prospect of facing two mathematics classes on Monday morning or the horror of having history classes after the lunch-break and the two periods of physics practical classes before the final bell, these and other incidents are discussed and dissected at great length with gusto.

School days, with its effervesence and despair, are back for good. Are the students prepared for it? Guess we8217;ll find out soon enough 8211; once the class bell starts ringing!

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