My+School+After+Blast+No.2

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 * This video has been made by student of D.P.S, it depicts his love for the school. Click on the link here to read 'my' English translation of the song in the video. **


 * When the school reopened after the second blast, it was a different school. Our school is built like a fort. It has huge thick walls. The walls were huger and thicker with barbed wires. Outside the main entrance were sacks of sand, that are visible in the army movies. Some of the gate keepers took cover behind them, with their riffles in position, ready to fire. Others were standing with metal detectors checking everyone in colored clothes entering the school. For safety of course, so that no suicide bombers entered the school premises. **


 * Guards were patrolling the school with big riffles all day. There were revolving security cameras on the school walls. Our school has fleet of about 25 buses. In each bus, was a security guard sitting in the front seat with a riffle…just in case terrorists hijacked the bus, or shot the students, or kidnapped the students for ransom or to sell their body organs etc. The guards kept the boys amused, though, the boys played pranks on the poor security guards all day. **


 * Teachers were on duty throughout the day to check the school dustbins…. for hidden bombs. **


 * At 9:00 am all the school gates would be closed, big locks would be put on them. If anyone wanted to enter the school compound now, it would be through the main administration gate only . There the security guards would check the I. D of the visitors, keep it with them, photocopy it, search the visitors, cross question them, make several phone calls…and then only the privileged would be allowed entry into the school compound. **


 * Did all these safety measures make me feel safe? Would they have made YOU ** ** feel secure? **


 * They terrified me further. Is this how my children are going to remember their school life! Is this a school? Or is it a prison? If someone puts a car full of explosives outside the school gate, what will these poor security guards do, lose their life’s, leaving their widows and orphans behind to beg or steal or to plant more bombs... **


 * I am going back home **...** to use the knowledge that I have acquired during the course of my studies in Australia, to establish 'communities of practice' to equip my colleagues, students and friends with the necessary skills required to compete and become equals to other progressing countries. **