Jealousy

Last Friday, feeling happy for my students, I shared my happiness with a few colleagues. One of my kids (22 of them altogether) scored 90 marks for Mathematics. I felt extremely happy for her, thats why I shared it with the fellow teachers.

Then a teacher threw a nasty remark. Well, maybe she has been like that all along. Off coz, her underlining meaning is "It's not you who helped her." I told her off by saying " I am not taking the credits, I am just happy for my students and I wanted to share with those who would be able to understand how that feels. Actually I think she should too as she is also in the same league, teaching less abled kids who are are academically slower than the rest of their cohorts.

What I don't understand is the jealousy one feels. If it were me, I would be happy and congratulate the teacher. Such remarks will not even cross my mind, let alone throwing it to another person. But what to do, some people are just so competitive. Anyway, though that person will never be able to read this blog, I would like to highlight to anyone who reads this and have such a thought on others, stop and reflect. When it comes to the kids, teachers should never compete like that. You can compete healthily.

Like two colleagues of mine. SUperb. They are super competitive against each other. But ultimately, its to the kids benefit. They don't put the other down (hmmm....in a manner that is condescending off coz). It can be quite scary but yeah, their competition seems much healthier than what this person is competing. Horrific!