AIB's Rohan Joshi tells how he was bullied by a teacher after Sushant Rohilla suicide
The news of Sushant Rohilla’s suicide, triggered by his detention from Amity Law School, led to a social media outrage after his friend Teerth Waraich shared a version of the story where Sushant was detained for low attendance even though he could not attend classes due to a leg injury.
As people all over the social media expressed their anger against the management of Amity Law School, AIB’s Rohan Joshi also joined in to express solidarity with Sushant, and shared his account of being bullied by a teacher in a series of tweets.
Joshi said that he was bullied by a teacher at KJ Somaiya College of Engineering because he didn’t like him, something Joshi descried as “pretty much a death sentence in the concerned subject” in an Indian college.
Rohan said he was failed by the teacher in an assignment, who also made him redo the correct one 20 times. After this Joshi had anxiety attacks at the college gate and never went back.
He said that he was fortunate to have people around who told him it was ok to fail.
Here are the tweets:
Indian colleges have some great teachers, but also a ton of pond scum. Bitter, broken, awful people who should not be allowed near kids.
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
In my 2nd semester of engineering, I had an Engineering Drawing teacher who was a complete bastard and a turd of a human being
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
For whatever reason, he decided he just didn't like me. In an Indian college, this is pretty much a death sentence in the concerned subject
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
He made me redo one particular assignment 20 times, I went to college four times during our scheduled study leave just to submit
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
I couldn't tell if I was imagining the prejudice, so I borrowed a friend's assignment, which the teacher had graded with a perfect score
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
I got a gigantic piece of tracing paper and over several hours, traced his assignment out exactly. Submitted the next day. FAILED. "Redo."
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
There were a hundred factors I considered before I dropped out of college in the next semester, but this asshole was a key factor.
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
I start shaking even today, just thinking about it. The humiliation, the helplessness. And the rage that follows.
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
I literally never went back to that college. I'd get anxiety attacks at the gate. I skipped the entire next term, voluntarily flunked out.
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
If you're a student and you're going through anything even remotely similar to this, please talk to someone. Because this is abuse
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
And it took me entirely too long to recognise that. We brush it off as "tough love teaching methods" but it's not. It's soul-crushing.
— Rohan (@mojorojo) August 16, 2016
