My life starts early in the morning at 5:30 AM when I wake up with the Korean beats of my most disciplined smart phone, which never tires, always punctual and regular. In turn I wake up my wife. Sometimes she does not want to get up, but alas....morning sleep is not in the fate of a school teacher. She has to wake up and reach the school by 7:30.
She calls children to wake up and get ready for the school. Usually kids wake up with oooh ..ha hmmm... and get late for the school sometimes. And from here, struggle starts to reach school in time.
Van walahs real struggle to pick the children, who are late or do not reach to the picking point. They start blowing horn outside the society gate for calling a kid from a apartment far away inside the society. So for calling one kid, they blow such a loud horn and cause associated noise pollution, it creates irritation to those who love to sleep at that early hour or love peace like me. The van drivers patience losses when one of the mother shouts from her balcony, again far away, ...he is coming...wait for him and don't go away...hearing this driver reacts from tomorrow onwards he should be at this place..else I will leave... This conversation happens loudly over a distance and almost daily.
Since van is getting late due to one kid, he has to pick other kids as well from the door step, he starts violating traffic rules, to reach school on time. Many a time I have seen, they drive on the wrong direction with maximum possible speed. They violate each and every traffic signal come in between. Nobody thinks about the dangers of such rash and erratic driving.
Similarly I have seen school teachers jump the traffic signals so that their attendance register do not bear the red mark. Same example is set by the parents, who visit the school to drop their kids. If they are getting late, they also violate all traffic rules.
During the entire process of reaching school, most of the time we forget that kids are watching us. Kids are keen observers and follow, what they see. Since we, as driver, teacher or parent set the wrong examples of bad driving and thus responsible for producing bad driving habits in our young generation.
She calls children to wake up and get ready for the school. Usually kids wake up with oooh ..ha hmmm... and get late for the school sometimes. And from here, struggle starts to reach school in time.
Van walahs real struggle to pick the children, who are late or do not reach to the picking point. They start blowing horn outside the society gate for calling a kid from a apartment far away inside the society. So for calling one kid, they blow such a loud horn and cause associated noise pollution, it creates irritation to those who love to sleep at that early hour or love peace like me. The van drivers patience losses when one of the mother shouts from her balcony, again far away, ...he is coming...wait for him and don't go away...hearing this driver reacts from tomorrow onwards he should be at this place..else I will leave... This conversation happens loudly over a distance and almost daily.
Since van is getting late due to one kid, he has to pick other kids as well from the door step, he starts violating traffic rules, to reach school on time. Many a time I have seen, they drive on the wrong direction with maximum possible speed. They violate each and every traffic signal come in between. Nobody thinks about the dangers of such rash and erratic driving.
Similarly I have seen school teachers jump the traffic signals so that their attendance register do not bear the red mark. Same example is set by the parents, who visit the school to drop their kids. If they are getting late, they also violate all traffic rules.
During the entire process of reaching school, most of the time we forget that kids are watching us. Kids are keen observers and follow, what they see. Since we, as driver, teacher or parent set the wrong examples of bad driving and thus responsible for producing bad driving habits in our young generation.
