Jayanthika Jain captures teachers' burnout and the struggles behind the chalkboard!

04 Sep 2025 18:40 IST

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Teachers often talk about being overworked, underpaid, and overlooked, and this is the reality that Jayantika Jain brings forward through her videos.

Teaching is unarguably one of the most important careers, because every profession we know today begins in a classroom. We often celebrate teachers as the backbone of society, the guiding light for generations, and the reason so many of us found the courage to dream bigger. Yet, behind this image of admiration lies a reality that is far less dignified. The very people we trust to shape young minds are struggling within a system that overworks them, burdens them with endless administrative tasks, pulls them into duties unrelated to education, pays them salaries that fail to reflect the weight of their responsibilities, and subjects them to hierarchies and discrimination that strip away the respect their role deserves.

And the most unsettling part is that we do not talk about this enough. The struggles of teachers rarely become part of mainstream conversations, even though they directly affect the quality of education and the future of students. However, content creator Jayantika Jain is using her video series to highlight these issues through short, relatable skits. Her videos often show how teachers are undervalued, overburdened, and treated casually within educational institutions, and while the tone is light, the reality she points to is deeply unsettling. It makes us realise how normalised this neglect has become, and how urgently we need to start talking about it.

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These videos point out how our praises are empty unless we acknowledge the everyday struggles that our teachers face every day. Teachers should not have to fight for fair pay, respect, or the freedom to do the work they were trained for. To truly believe they are the backbone of society, valuing them must go beyond admiration. It should show in our actions, policies, and in the treatment they receive from institutions.

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