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I chose to forget the address. Of all the things I had to forget, that would be the easiest.

I hate how our education system keeps on failing us, save for a few good teachers everyone else is in just for fulfilling the obligation to get the paycheck and students too have gotten so used to the shitty teaching methods that majority never really questions it. I have the English boards tomorrow and here i am ranting about how it disappoints me to see how chapters like 'Should Wizard Hit Mommy?'(this is one hell of a chapter and WE NEED TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT IT IN CLASS because it has so many layers and issues depicted in it) 'Aunt Jennifer's Tigers', 'The Rattrap', 'On The Face of It' and many more that are such great source to stir up very important conversations about male chauvinism, generational gaps, parent-child relations, normalised misogyny, miscommunications, human nature/psychology, grey morals, abelism, bullying, self identity etc etc etc etc being ridiculed and hated by numerous of students just because they have been treated like some silly stories and poems that need to be crammed for the sake of marks. I hate how teachers never try to stir up conversations about the impact these chapters have in our daily lives & thinking and make us question and have discussions about these stories and characters and their dialogues. The literature of our syllabus isn't only for entertainment and cramming, it's for provoking our thoughts and questioning things but alas they waste such great opportunities. (Seeing how most of our teachers aren't equipped with the skills to make use of these chapters in the right way, it's better to remove these chapters because if we don't have discussions about the issues depicted in them, it's just promoting and normalising those issues which isn't a good thing.)

Anyways, all the best for tomorrow guys!!! Hoping CBSE doesn't mess this up again for us :)

I'm back again with yet another rant about the English course and yes this is about 'Should Wizard Hit Mommy?' and how many of the students think it should be removed because of the misogynistic comments of one of the characters. See I find that chapter really important and interesting because of it's main and direct theme being the questioning/acceptance of parental authority (or any authority in our lives) and child-parent ideological differences. But apart from that there are so many underlying themes in this story like how not everything is just black and white (ie the answer to should wizard hit mommy), Jack's dilemma as a parent, feeling of outcast and being different, how people treat those who are different than the norms etc. As readers it really depends on us on what we interpret and find in these stories and I won't start an analysis here just to save time. It's an open ended story anyways.

Now coming onto Jack, just because he isn't an ideal fictional man and has balantly realistic misogynistic attitude, people demand this chapter to be removed and call it a shitty chapter??? Hello?? What do you want?? Our courses to be filled with fairytales of unrealistically ideal characters without any flaws like children books?? We are 12th graders folks. Jack is as real as any male we encounter in our daily lives and his presence in the chapter does not make the chapter shitty or unworthy of being taught in the class. We as readers are to question characters like him, nobody is saying to idolize the characters and love them all. We have grey characters like him to make us wonder and question things, not to just accept everything being told. Just because the chapters are being taught in the worst way possible doesn't make the chapters unworthy of being taught. Now cue to my last rant why I don't really blame the students for this but our educators. I really like the chapters of our ncert books, they'd have been great if used to their full potential instead of being seen as stories to be read nonchalantly and crammed to get scores. But well...