Story- Everyone was talking about the new teacher at school. There was something different about her, something strange about her eyes that frightened people.

‘Everyone was talking about the new teacher at school. There was something different about her, something strange about her eyes that frightened people…’ 

Everyone was talking about the new teacher at school. There was something different about her, something strange about her eyes that frightened people. What was it? Even before her taking our class, we were anxious. When Rupali ma’am, the new math teacher came to our class, we broke into perspiration. Her red blood eyes made us think of a horror show.

Each day, we were in a state of shock. Looking at her odd eyeballs was not at all worth it. Her eyeballs were quite unusual and strange.

Every day, we wondered why she is looking at us like that. What have we done? There are 22 of us, and for sure there is one person whom she is targeting. Who could it be? We were petrified.

We could hardly focus on her math lessons. Whenever, she realized that she used to yell, ‘Hey! Concentrate!’ Honestly, we had no control over it. Anyhow, we decided not to look at her eyes. No matter what it may end up in.

But within us, we were just filled with fear, fear, and fear! We tried to pay attention to her lessons as exams were approaching. High marks were not a priority at this juncture only bearing her to clear the math paper.

Very often, our headmistress was in touch with us regarding her teaching. She used to come and ask, ‘How’s the lesson going on?’ We often lied and said, ‘It’s going all right ma’am.’

We had a few months before our exam and we desperately wanted this teacher to leave. We contemplated on discussing our fears with the headmistress.

The next day was the PTM, we told our parents regarding her teaching style so, and they consulted the issue with the headmistress as well as, other teachers. Rupali ma’am was called in front of, members of the staff and headmistress. She did not know that the students will get scared of her. She only did this because she wanted the students’ attention. Not realizing that because of these dark red contact lenses they will get frightened.  

At the very moment, she took out her lenses and apologized in front of everybody. She said, ‘The reason I wore them was, for glamour and beauty.’ The headmistress instantly shared her views saying, ‘You’re not here for glamour and beauty, instead of providing efficient knowledge to our students.’

At last, which teacher will not want her students to perform well in exams however, the problem was she was not aware of the issue.