School Teacher's Role in Today's India

Any sensible Education Administration Professional in our country would know that teachers in our schools are under enormous undue pressure from school management, students and parents. A few days back, CNA TV telecast a detailed documentary outlining the undue pressure on school teachers in Korea. From my experience of more than 30 years in School Education at different levels in different countries, I think that many of the problems faced by Korean teachers are experienced by teachers in our country as well. As far as I have experienced, main culprits are School Administration Boards and parental community. These two have unrealistic expectations and put teachers under enormous, some times unbearable pressure. In our country we still don't have any support system to help teachers in difficulty. Of course there is a lot of lip service and occassional recognition of teachers' role on Teacher's Day etc. But this is certainly not adequate to protect our teachers' interests.