Of letters and human niceties

Geetha H.K., a teacher of Government Lower Primary School at Yelagudige near Aldur in Chikkamagaluru taluk, has won many a heart by writing letters to her students enquiring about them during lockdown

Geetha H.K., a teacher of Government Lower Primary School at Yelagudige near Aldur in Chikkamagaluru taluk, has won many a heart by writing letters to her students enquiring about them during lockdown. Her gesture has been well appreciated by many, including Minister for Primary and Secondary Education S. Suresh Kumar. She posted letters to all her 16 students on May 31, 2021. The letters reached the students on June 1. “Within minutes after they received my letters, students and their parents started calling me over phone. For many students, it was the first letter addressed to them in their life. They were all thrilled and thanked me for writing to them,” Ms. Geetha said. The teacher was impressed when Deekshith, a class II student, called her over phone after receiving her letter and enquired about her health. “I was moved by his call. That day, I was on phone for nearly three hours as every student called me one after the other,” she said.