"Danger School" - Book Review 

“Danger School” is the most subversive cartoon book on Education. It shows the apathy happening in the school system.  It is a kind of documentation of all the events actually happening with the pupils of the School, teachers, and parents.   

This book sets the Contextual picture of the school education system of our society, especially the helplessness of the pupils, teachers, and parents of our society. It is helpful for those who want to understand the exact reality of our society. This book is mainly based on the big pictures of cartoons, which convey the context of the school system in a comic way. This comic form of the book makes it more interesting, especially for those who don’t take interest in reading.   

As we all know School education plays a significant role in all aspects of our life whether it is cultural, social, or any other. It is needed for the society to actually understand the scenario of the school system, because they already built some kind of perception in their mind, whatever the outer media or government want to convey.   

It also shows the mindset of parents, “How do parents think about the school?” Parents also want teachers to take control of their children. They accepted that the education system should be so strict, everything must be completed on time, no other activities should be included in teaching, and studying means children should be engaged with books and copies. Parents' attitude is like, Playing or doing other activities are useless things in learning. The only thing which matters for parents is their children should get good marks, they relate study through the marks only, and they want education should be fully systematic not meaningful. Parents relate studying as a medium of getting a good job. Although this thinking pattern is not self-made, the dominating powers made them helpless to see education in such a way. It also reflects the uneasiness of the parents.   

This book reflects the uneasiness among teachers also. The administrative work made them overburdened, which results in less involvement in teaching practices. This book defines the reality of teachers in the school, they are not intrinsically motivated to teach meaningfully, as they use to already occupied with a lot of paperwork. This book picturized the situation of the teachers very clearly. Teaching is just like a formality for them, but the paperwork is a must. Teachers are also under pressure to do this; they are helpless in the system.   

This book reflects the rigid and strict reality of the school system for the pupils because they have to follow all the rules and regulations set by the school

institution in a strict way, and the learning criteria has already been set in their mind that they have to learn and memorize whatever is written in the books, they have to complete their copies timely, they have to score good marks (Also think it as a proof of being intelligent), they think that getting punishment is a part of education, also think education is teacher’s centered and have to follow whatever the teachers want (think it as their duty). This is the culture of our school education system which is picturized in this book.   

This book presents the scenario of the school system in the current context. This book helps the readers to open up their minds and help us to think critically. Also, help us to see and understand the things around us more critically and seriously.