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Coming of Age High School Teens & Young Adult

Oh! the playground is almost not visible from our class, why is it so? I remember that last month we all had gathered to watch football match of our class boys.What's wrong with this month..It took few moments for us to realize that our class was shifted to the next room. Ohh! are we out of our mind, we even forgot that we are promoted to next grade and we are still in past mode of 6th class. We still can't believe that we are in class 7th but this fact is truth and we have to accept it. "Actually one boring thing is we are mooving to higher classes and growing up, i imagine if i had a blessing to become younger day by day or remain same. But we can't remain same because its life process and particularly we the children between the age of 11 to 19 are known as adolescents and teenagers, these all facts are science oriented but truth. This is the age where we all create memories, have fun with friends in school" i wonder why my friend Dhruthi is saying all these things to me and i can even notice the seriousness in her face, it was hard to accept that my friend was changed but its true, even I'm changed very much compared to my childhood days, my brothers miss my mischievous nature very much. What to do just move on.

"Only 53 seconds are left for the next bell " said Pooja."I am waiting from so long,when is this boring class will be finished, actually you know what, i just came out of my dream, such a wonderful dream, what a experience . Luckly next period is games" I secretly heard these all conversations that were going among my friends, actually the thing is i was secretly appointed as secret leader of our class and my duty is to make sure that no one disturb while class is going on and the hardest task was to note down the names of my classmates who all are undisciplined and also i need to make sure that everyone one in our class converse in English language.

3..2..1 bell rang and finally we got freedom, we all rushed to the play ground and played a lot but me as a secret leader had to notice each and everyone even in free time as well. Sometimes i feel sad to write my friend's name and give it to sir but the amazing fact is my friend still not yet discovered that i am the secret leader of class, appointed by our class teacher 'Sebastian sir'.

Me being a secret leader had noticed lot of mischievous things that will be going on in our class. The main ones are cheating while writing exams, this was the serious issue of our class. Not only the students who are weak in studies involved in it but also some rank holders too joined hands for this undesirable work. It was the time during preparatory examination that was conducted during the month of February, it was first day of exam and the subject of the day was science , i reached classroom 20 minutes early before the commencement of exam and opened my school bag to take out my note book for final revision. I saw some of my friends, engaged with paper cutting. I asked them the reason behind this activity. They slowly came closer to me and said a secret in my ears. The secret was that they were cutting paper inorder to copy down important answers for exam, actually they were preparing copy chits.

I just walked away into exam hall and sat in first bench because my class register number is 1. The undesirable work done by my friends was disturbing my mind a lot, i suggested them to revice what all they can remember but they were not in the stage of convincible, i felt they lost their honest, self respect, descipline and hope of their parents.Almost there was 3 more minutes for the exam commencement, i heard my friend Pranathi speaking with Chinmayi who is one of the rank holder. "Definitely the diagram of animal cell will be in exam" said Pranathi to Chinmayi and actually Pranathi is the daughter of our science teacher so she gets the question paper before the exam, i felt even she is not honest and even Chinmayi who is asking about the questions is not at all fit for rank holder, they know that they are choosing wrong path but they are too greed that they dont even want to correct themselves.

Exam started, the exam was totally easy for me, as i had reviced this subject several times. Exam finished at 11:30 am and was started at 9:00 am, so we had enough time to express our anwers through our writing in answer scripts. My answer paper was collected first because my register number was 1 and later i came out of exam hall and i noticed there was a huge crowd infornt of our class. I didnt took it serious because it will be common, so i rushed towards staff room to meet our class teacher to tell everything about cheating in exam but i was surprised that staff room was empty. I went towards my classroom and saw our class teacher along with school principal punishing my friends, i was surprised that how teachers got to know about the undesirable work of our classmates, it dont need much time to realize, definitely they are caught by examiner...They all were badly punished by teachers and were taken to office room and called their parents. All our class students were crying because there friend 's are being published for their work.I never felt sad because i tried to convince them in a better way and explained them copying is not at all right and i also told them this may effect our future life. I feel copying is like we are killing our ideas ourselves which means we are destroying our mind with our greed and i had promised my self that i never engage in copying during exams because it says that we are cheating our parents

Almost 3 members were caught by our class teacher, they were Kruthika, Pooja,Dhanush.

I noticed that Dhanush was crying a lot and even some girls went to convince him

A girl named Thanushree who was sitting next to me said everything what happened in exam hall, she also said that even she had carried copy chits with her and when examiner came to check wheather all are writing exam honestly, she got scared that even she would get caught so she suddenly opended the lid of her waterbottle and threw copy chits into waterbottle, the copy chits got dissolved in water and formed bubbles with blue colour ink and she found other peice too so she quickly swallowed that peice of paper. I was in shock for some moment after hearing this copy cat story and i noticed that she was removing her shoes, i saw that she had kept a mini book of answers to copy in her shoes. I felt i cant explain things to them, i just feel they are cheating themselves because they know that they are doing wrong but still continue the same habit.

"I remember that these things were not going on in our primary classes as we had great respect on our parents and teachers and also we were honest but in this teenage we are loosing our honest nature, inosence and mainly created problems even through it is wrong. I belive that we are responsible for our life and we are the future responsible citizens of our nation and as well for world. Lets control ourselves and lets be inosents as kids." a loud clappes were heard i ended my valedictorian speech in anual day and i felt so happy that my words finally changed my friends who were striking to a course of action when its clearly wrong................









May 16, 2021 19:15

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