Mirabete, Angelica P.

II-A2

Pole Star Teachers for Paper Plane Students

(A Reflection Paper on ‘Hichki”)

Tourette is a syndrome, either the kind of Tourette that Ma’am Naina

have or the Tourette that everyone have in the story. This movie brought us
inside the world of the students as well as the teachers. We can feel the
sincerity of teaching and the love for learning. A story of overcoming our fears
and accepting our flaws. Believing on ourselves and persevering. Showing us
how we can embrace differences and describing what normal means. When
everybody else say that it is not normal, Ma’am Naina believed that what she
have is normal and those students of class 9F are just normal students that
needs equal opportunities.

Every character imparted us a lesson and a challenge to take on.

Specially, Ma’am Naina who teaches teacher on becoming a good teacher for
a student. It is so inspiring how she never give up on becoming a teacher.
She fights for her belief that she is born to be a teacher. Despite her
weakness, the strength she had showed is incomparable. At first, I pity her for
no school nor teacher accepted her. She always ended up not getting
accepted in schools when she was a kid and even now that she is a teacher.
But what caught me is that, she is not the one that I should be pitying of, it
should be those people whose mindset is more than the Tourette syndrome.
It does not affect her intellect and her way of teaching. Even if no one
accepted her just like her father, she herself, accepted who she is. I
understand how eager she is to be a teacher because one teacher. Mr.Khan,
treated her like everybody else in that same school. That is also why she have
a strong faith towards those students of 9F. For those students did not feel the
belongingness that she didn’t feel neither. Class of 9F feel that they do not
belong to the school and they were meant to fail. Ma’am Naina changed that
view and started to dig dipper for 9F class to show their smart minds and give
their all hearts. She wanted them to strengthen their wings and fly. Not to
blame others nor their situations for what is happening but to start in
becoming better. They are those paper planes who are made to fly just like
how Mam Naina believed that she can fly. Those students are not bad they
are only becoming rebellious because of the way the school treats them. She
believes in the goodness and brightness of her students. In every troubles
that the class were involved, I was moved on how Ma’am Naina strongly fight
for them. Even if all her co-teachers tell her that 9F are failure and will never
be changed, she saw what others cannot see to them. All students are good,
teachers just need to divert the negativities they have to a positive energy that
will soon result to excellence. This basically opened my mind to see things
through. To believe and not to judge or make a conclusion toward others.
Along the flow of the story, I admired her on being persistent in teaching her
student after they were suspended. The dedication, love and support she
have given to those students are really worth praising for.

Every students deserve a perfect badge and a Mam Naina teacher

deserve all the gratitude a student can give. Hichki changed the mindset of
the characters toward the kind of syndrome Ma’am Niana have and that of all
the characters have. The belief that students are hopeless are a kind of
syndrome for a teacher to conquer himself/ herself. It is the teachers job to be
their hope and be the pole star that will guide their wings to fly. This leave as
the lesson to overcome our hichkis or flaws for we are more than that. We are
all good learners who have the love to learn. There are just some teachers
who do it in a wrong way. Truly, there are no bad students, only bad teachers.
Are you going to be Mr. Wadia or Niana Ma’am. Spread your arm and be the
pole star that will help young minds to be in a right direction.