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Thank You Burung JHS for the honour

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Thank You, Burung JHS, for the honour.(09.12.15)
I feel blessed to have received my first honour as a school teacher from the school where I was first posted.





MY SPEECH ON THE OCCASION

Good afternoon to all, with due permission from today's Chief Guest, Special Guest, and distinguished guests from my department, HRDD, and others.

I am standing on the premises of a school where I started my journey as a school teacher. I stayed here for six long years, and I am thankful to the school administration for considering me worthy of recognition. I find myself blessed to receive my first honour as a school teacher from the school where I was first posted.

During my early years, I was told that teaching was a beautiful profession. Despite this, I was made aware that it is not the easiest of professions. Honour, whether large or small, encourages you to improvise your efforts to bring out the best in you. To give back to society, I became a teacher.

Today, it might seem funny, but my intention as a teacher was that I always wanted to work in a village school. In the last ten years, I've been a teacher in three schools I've been posted to.

 I have always believed that teachers are the medium between our students and the outside world; the less we expose our students to the global world, the less we contribute to holistic development. Not all students are gifted in academics, but it’s the duty of a teacher to bring out their potential. Some might be talented at sports, some at culture, and others in literature: we need to find a platform for them, provide them with opportunities, and help them motivate better.

At this very school, the first-ever football tournament played by the students, they were routed with 9 goals to nil, yet I was part of that moment. I was happy to see that many players in that match were the finalist of the Sakyong Chisopani Independence Day Football Tournament last year.

Teachers tend to blame students, parents, or guardians for a student's failure. If we realize I failed to make the lesson understandable to my students, I am sure the outcome would be positive. Here, we are dealing with a student many years younger than us. We cannot communicate with the student through a graduate thinker. We must get to the student level, be like them, and interact with their ideology.

Returning to Burung JHS, I have seen this school grow from a mere Burung Primary School. I had good opportunities during my stay at this school. Thank you to NT Sir, Uttam Sir, MB Sir, Kamal Sir, Sabitra Madam and Gangaa Madam.

From here, I would especially like to thank Mrs Indira Rizaal, the Pre-Primary Teacher at this school. She helped me with many projects we worked on together. I do not hesitate to say that she also shares the honour I received here.

Thanks to the newly appointed headmistress, her arrival is a blessing to this school and to this village.

Thank you once again!! And best of luck to the school in the coming days, too!!

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