𝑾𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒊𝒍 ( දුක් ගන්නා රාළ )

 Last night a friend of mine sent me a video in which a girl was lambasting teachers’ industrial action seeking better pay. These are my responses to it given in dot points. ·          I fully agree with her argument that this is not the right time to start something like that as the whole world is grappling with an epidemic situation, ·          Having said that, one has to agree that teachers are one of the poorest paid professions in the country, ·          However, this profession has now become a refuge for most incompetent people, ·          This profession needs much better pay scales to attract talented and competent talents and not the residual found in the society, ·          At the same time, introduction of a way to measure and assess their outputs periodically ...

A few senior boys and their thugs stormed into the school during interval/recess time to beat up a classmate, when we were in grade 10. We did not say nor do anything to avert but watched in shock as we did not know what to do. The chemistry subject was the period immediately after the break and as the master entered the class, we knew that he was not in a mood to teach. He was silent for some time and we waited for him to say something. Then he asked all of us a very simple question. "What kind of young men are you, watching your fellow student being beaten up by thugs on the school premises and doing nothing?" There was no chemistry lesson that afternoon and some enjoyed the break but a few started pondering the incident seriously. Having enjoyed success the previous day, the seniors and thugs revisited during the interval with the idea of bashing the poor fellow up a little more. What happened thereafter is well known in the school history and that was the last time we had...