The Parliament passed the much needed the Right to Education
(RTE) Amendment Bill that scraps the contentious No-Detention- System. It was a
serious flow of the RTE Act and it must be avoided at every cost. It has
completely ruined the quality of the primary and schools education.
The negative impact of the No-Detention-System can be seen
even at a higher level too. Students moving at the higher level have become
very weak in studies. They have behavioural problems too. Today, students are
highly undisciplined, ill-mannered and lawless. The students of JNU, Jamia,
AMU, Jadhavpur University, Osmania University etc are the right example of this
kind.
RTE has a heavy emphasis on physical infrastructure in
schools rather than on quality education like learning and teaching standards
were gone astray. With no-detention, the original RTE Act directive, Continuous
and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) of children in schools was very faulty and
almost fake.
In most of the schools, children were carelessly promoted forward,
CCE completely failed. And now detention of students’ returns to our education
system, the fear of failure will force children to study with renewed vigour.
Now, students who are weak or not interested in studies will automatically
leave the schools. They can use their time and resources in other things and
pieces of training.
Nobody can teach a child if he is not interested in studies.
A man can take a horse to a water pond but fifty men cannot make him drink the
water. It applies to a child. This may also reduce the suicide rates among the
students. If the number of students is reduced, then the expenditure of the
government on education will also be reduced. Detention must be accompanied by
stricter norms of responsibility demanded of teachers, principals, authorities
and schools.
Unfortunately, many teachers, principals, authorities have
made their way into the education system without requisite qualifications and
then enjoy the security of tenure that doesn’t weed out non-performers and
corrupts.
Only high enrolment is not a significant indicator of
education access. A survey revealed that 25% 8th standard students being unable
to read fluently in their mother tongue and nearly 50% failed in doing basic
math and reading English sentences. In this context of poor skill acquisition
by students in education cannot raise their worldly prospects.
Only serious and meritorious students should be encouraged
and raised as future hope of the nation. The government should also tighten the
screws of school authorities, principals and teachers.
The discourse must move forward from universal access to the
right to education to quality education, not backward to increasing only
numbers like vote banks. RTE failed not only the students but the education and
nation too through the piecemeal controversial non-detention system. Piecemeal
reforms in education are responsible for this chaos in education.
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