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One nice evening dad comes home after a busy day. His son who is in the 9th STD approaches him with his progress report from school. He has not done well for some the examinations and there is a special note from the class teacher that reads.
“Your son is not studying well. You must come and meet the Principal this week itself.”
Worried dad meets the principal on the next day itself. The principal says
“Our school is one of the best institutions in the state. We have maintained 100% pass for the last 25 years. Your son poses a risk to that status. I dont think he will pass the board exams next year. We can either issue a TC or he will have to continue in the 9th STD until we are confident”
If this is what the school thinks, then why do we need schools in the first place ? If schools will teach only bright students then we dont need schools at all.
We send our children to schools, we also send them to tuition centres for additional coaching. But if the student fails the blame goes to tuition teacher. Noone ever asks the school teacher why the kid failed. The situation is such that the teacher will ask this question to the parent.
This raises a question. Who is responsible for a students education.
The father who has busy job ?
OR
The Tution teacher who gets 2 hrs with the student max daily ?
OR
The school whose sole purpose is to teach and who gets paid for it ?
Our education system will never change, until we figure out an answer for this. An education system which is not student centric is never gonna add any value. A system which is controlled by some percentages, pride and politics is ultimately gonna kill the student.
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An immediate comment:
In our current eduction system students learn how to answer quetsions and not how to question answers.
For private schools, education is a business and ‘100%’ is a way to attract more customers. They produce, apolitical, socially inert snobs.
Govt. schools, in most cases, are breeding grounds for tomorrow’s anti-social. politically inflammable ‘leaders’(?!)
There are schools which do provide mentorship, and i have seen that happening, but along with the school its the responsibility of the parent and the student himself to make sure that the learning process is smooth…but ofcourse the school cannot wash its hands off that responsibility…learning after all is a collective process…
you are asking this question in India - it is like asking which came first - the Chicken or the egg….
Well if you think broadly, the system of education in India is not that well. In India, education = mugging.
Yes! Students just mug, not for the sake of knowledge but for the sake of marks. Indian system of education mainly depends on making a student learn theoretically but not practically. This is where most of the students who are weak don’t tempt to get good grades.
The present system of education must change. This is the only answer that could be valid. We cannot blame anyone. Neither the school, the student nor the parents or anybody else…
> Who is responsible for a students education?
You forgot the most important person - the kid himself/herself.
The system is responsible. ”Mattuvin chattangale..allenkil swayamathukalee mattumee ningale than”..human beings will not change themselves. Father, teacher and all human beings.. Let the system do that job.
@Binny
If the most responsible person is the kid himself. Then why do we need schools ? Why do we pay the teachers ? Why do we issue degrees ? The system has to provide a decent enough situation and should take a little bit of responsibility. Its not upto the individual totally.
If the society imposes restrictions then it must undertake the responsibility also.
Most of these so called top and popular schools are not adding much value to education system-They take already intelligent students and claim their success rate is high…
They can stake a claim only if they can take non performing students and ensure that they pass in first class…
@Shrinidhi: The same thing with tutions also. They take only brilliant students and then when those students pass out with good % they start publishing about their tuts in papers and stuff… I seriously hate those kind of people. They only tend to make money nothing else…!
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