Undiscipline is the New Cool In Indian Schools?

Why India’s Education System is Breeding Chaos, Not Character

Welcome to the Great Indian Education Circus. 🎪

Where buzzwords replace backbone, chaos masquerades as creativity, and the only thing growing faster than admissions is indiscipline. Welcome to a system that rewards entitlement, punishes structure, and treats values as vintage collectibles.

And what about teachers? Oh, they can book a therapist — if their underpaid salary can afford one.

🎭 The Illusion of “Fun Learning”

In today’s schools, we’ve turned “no pressure” into no accountability. We’ve confused flexibility with freeloading. And we’ve turned classrooms into customer care centers where the child is king and the teacher is just a glorified babysitter.

You see, parents are not paying for education anymore.
They’re paying for convenience.

So schools respond accordingly: “No scolding.” “No punishments.” “Let them be.”
Translation?
“Let them rot with a smile.”

Meanwhile in Japan…

🧹 Gakko Soji: The Art of Discipline

Every Japanese student cleans their classroom before leaving. No janitors. No fuss. Just culture.

It’s called Gakko Soji, a 140-year-old practice that builds:

• Dignity of labor
• Personal accountability
• Community ownership

In India? Try asking a student to clean a desk and you’ll have a parent filing an FIR under “child trauma.” The same child who can play PUBG for 4 hours straight and watch reels till 3 AM suddenly becomes “fragile” when asked to lift a broom.

🧠 Psychology Says Discipline Isn’t a Punishment — It’s a Superpower

Let’s talk science, because clearly emotion and ethics aren’t working.

🔍 Indian Journal of Psychiatry (2022):

• Students with a disciplined daily routine showed 27% lower anxiety
• They had 22% higher academic focus than their free-floating peers

🧠 Self-regulation, a byproduct of discipline, increased emotional resilience by 30%

🧑‍🏫 National Foundation for Teachers’ Welfare (2023):

• 42% of Indian teachers considered quitting or had already quit due to behavioral stress
• Main reasons? Indisciplined students, parental entitlement, and total lack of institutional backing

📉 In contrast:

• Japan’s teacher attrition rate is under 3%
• India’s teacher attrition has crossed 13.5% in colleges, and a shocking 18% in primary schools

Why? Because teaching here isn’t a profession. It’s a default.
Can’t crack UPSC? Become a teacher.
Failed in IT? Become a teacher.
Don’t like working weekends? Hello, summer vacation!

🤯 The Cost of Chaos

We’re creating a generation that:

• Can’t handle deadlines without panic attacks
• Needs five coffee breaks and two therapy sessions after a performance review
• Thinks “being real” means ghosting responsibility and calling it “self-care”
• Believes discipline is abuse and accountability is “toxic behavior”

We don’t need robots. But we don’t need rebels without cause either.

💸 Profits Over Principles

Education today is a business, not a calling.
The motto is simple: Don’t upset the customer.

• Grades are inflated.
• Rules are diluted.
• And values? Deprecated like an old syllabus.

Ask a teacher to discipline a student and you’ll hear:
“Please adjust, Sir.”
“The parents are influential.”
“Let’s not create an issue.”

And who loses in the long run?
The child. The teacher. And the country.

🇮🇳 India vs 🇯🇵 Japan: A Cultural Contrast

🔚 Final Thought: Root Cause, Rotten Fruit

If the roots are weak, the tree will fall.
If our schools don’t nurture discipline, respect, and self-regulation, then no matter how many coding bootcamps and smart boards we install, we’re just grooming chaos.

We don’t need more toppers.
We need better humans.

Until we treat discipline not as oppression but as foundation, we’ll keep breeding anxiety-ridden, entitlement-fueled, underprepared adults who crumble at life’s first challenge.

So, is undiscipline the new cool?
Only if we want our future to look like a reel — short, noisy, and full of filters.

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