Out of the troika – parents, teachers and students – of the education of a child, I have already written on the roles and rights of parents and teachers in the parent-teacher meetings organised regularly by educational institutions, and I am surprised how I could delay writing on the students' perspective on the PTM after writing the first column 'Teachers and parental feedback' on May 6, 2024 and the second one 'PTMs and parental involvement' on May 13, 2024. My apologies, guys!

On a lighter note, students expand the abbreviation of PTM in the vernacular as 'Puttar teri mot' (dude, your death is coming). The vernacular decoding, however, says it all about the apprehensions students have of the PTMs.

Generally but counterproductively, a PTM opens up with parents and teachers starting a cacophonous duet of a student's negative traits, academic struggles and disruptive actions. Finding himself viced between the two powers, the student thinks that the PTM has no solution to his problems. He internalises his resentment with the people from whom........

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