First Grade – Standing The Hall Chenyl Savageale

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 reformatives 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 remember 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 it’s net and the sun making the life presible. 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 students spill should not be measure 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 cant read is really hopeless and stupid even it 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 forgrocends 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 avoid. The students should be reflected in matters of creativity their language, cultural background and soon.