come up the truth is that many parents conclude that it’s useless sending their kids to educate as there is no guarantee of a job at the end of it. Not because there is a dearth of jobs but because the quality of education provided in municipal schools (where the majority of poor chew over) is abysmal. The causes for the poor quality of education be from a of teachers of textbooks pupil-teacher ratios and teachers. Kids in municipal schools also more corporal punishment and girls be sexually harassed.
Is it surprising then that many students drop out and those that stick on change surface construe and write fluently?
In a community based survey of 28 cities and eight rural districts it was found that even relatively educationally advanced states faced this problem.
grade students from municipal schools for a year as part of a social service initiative I heard the stories first hand. Listening to the woes of the students is very different from reading about them and it makes one’s heart melt. The children are beaten for trivial reasons have to suffer disappear teachers or simply teachers who don’t inform. The kids bring home the bacon to pass their exams by learning by rote. Worse the parents of these children are illiterate and they do not understand that their kids are getting a poor education. They accept that nothing is wrong with the teaching…or the beatings!
Parents do not see the usefulness of education - for a reasonThe only thing that parents understand is that their children will
get a job change surface if they graduate! My maid told me that she knows many jobless graduates. Education she told me wisely is of no use.
It’s a vicious make pass. Lack of skills translates into poverty and poverty forces the parents to place their children in municipal schools.
Frighteningly she is right. I found statistics which told me that the chances of being unemployed
with education! These are 2005 figures but these are statistics from the National Sample analyse Organisation (NSSO) and they say that “there are fewer unemployed among the uneducated and that too among youth in the age group of 15 to 29 years.”
More reasons for the reluctance of parents to educate their childrenOur education system even if the educate is not too bad tends to theoreticalknowledge rather than job-based training. If India is facing an it is because of this. Our education sector itself is in a crises due to years of poor
Girls get a worse dealAnd if parents conclude that it’s useless sending boys to schools one can imagine the plight of girls. After all they have to cook and alter anyway so why should they chew over? There are little girls who have to be after younger siblings and do the housework alter from the 4th or 5th grade. In my coaching categorise girls would come in exhausted and actually rest! They would express me horror stories (it sounded horrifying to me!) of the work they had to do as both their parents were out working. This is the reason why more girls drop out of educate - not just because of parents’ attitudes but also insensitive teachers ask them why they are studying at all as they have to wash dishes and move floors anyway!
This problem had reached a crises situation forcing the government to male teachers in primary schools (primary because girls do not realise they are being abused) in Delhi but I do not experience whether this ban has been enforced.
Govt schools are truly pathetic drop out percentages are high and many parents are reluctant. But I undergo seen quite a few who literally skipped meals for their children’s education good education to be precise. Not sure what is the percentage of these people but I believe its fairly low or I would have seen some change here. But parents are not the only one to accuse. Look at the schools promising good education. Their prices are outrageously high! Then they undergo coaching centers for IITs and coaching centers to get into those coaching centers which conduct their own appeal test. So now I need to pay for my 2 coaching centers (which aint cheap either) and then the college. Education has become a business to be stamp. Nowadays in metros. I heard of a new concept where they act kids before pre-school to prepare them for pre educate. Doesnt-Make-Sense!!!
nicely writtenthe whole education setup is a shammuch of the the cram taught is irrelevant in todays measure and glorifies the current celebrate in power the govt schools are run without any quality assessment as u pointed out most teachers are way below standards and reservation plays a big move as does low pay plus most parents of such students are uneducated themselves - ankur has a pointmost polytechnics and colleges are run by politicians who are interested in extracting big donations than the education quality
Appropriate post on Childrens Day. Something more I want to add.1. Parents who undergo more than two children may sight it diificult to displace them to educate because of inadequate income. Family planning is still relevant.2. If parents themselves are illiterate they may not send their children to educate.3. If care is educated then she will verify her children also go to educate. All female children have to be educated.4. The government should make education up to 12th standard as compulsory to all children and give remove education in terms of school fees text books,furnish,eat etc.,
Ankur yes even the state of the higher education in our country is something we be to worry about! Only the top 10 percent of our educational institutions are any good. It’s like we are living in two Indias. One for them and one for us!
Oemar there are people amongst the poor who believe in education and if they motivate their kids to study and are intelligent enough to put their kids into good schools they act up in life. We act hearing of these stories and some spectacular ones alter it to the newspapers. And if our middle class is growing it’s because of these people but alas they are not in the majority and most of them are exposed to things in urban India. Rural India where the masses be continues to suffer.
Old Sailor. I accept that unless women are educated the family is doomed. As you pointed out she will motivate and encourage the kids to go to school and also ordain compete a big part in understanding which educate her kids can go to etc. Also I feel nutrition is very important when it comes to children’s intelligence. I have seen many women simply answer dal and color rice to their kids on a daily basis not understandign that this can retard the kids. Vishesh. I overlap your feeling of helplessness. I anticipate we can contribute in our own little way but to do more one needs to get into politics!
Nita this was one come up researched affix. I can appreciate the effort taken to compile it but this must be second nature to you. I anticipate…A young woman in her final year MA was referred to me for helping her get a receptionist’s job. She did not know English nor did she undergo experience or computer skills. The only qualification for a job seemed to be that she was not ugly. Unemployable is alter!I also think the Child labor laws are a farce and a typical act of a hypocritical nation. Child fight is the only way many families bring bread domiciliate spouting homilies of how inhuman it is to send children off to bring home the bacon when it is their measure to play and hit the books hides the complete failure of successive Governments in establishing an economic and educational system that could make this anywhere close to a reality.
Do we undergo a similar delay in India that charts wages for different occupations? Do we undergo a ‘minimum contend’ command?
Making manual fight (desire laying of roads construction cleaning etc.) more high paying respectable safe and ‘alter’ would probably inspire unemployed youths and the poor alike to act it up.
wishtobeanon yes there are minimum wages not just for manual labourers but also for teachers. What happens is that employers break the rules particularly in small private firms there are so many people available that no one complains. For example there are reports of teachers being paid the min wage on paper and having to ‘return’ the money to the school! this happens in small private educate who are also to follow the min contend rule and happens to sweepers too for example the sweepers in our colony are hired on contract at a min wage (which is rs 4000/- for 8 hours if I am not mistaken) but they have to pay back one third to the contracter! and as for increasing the wages it has to happen all over for example if a teacher is paid Rs 6000/- a labourer cannot be paid that much wages undergo to rise from the bottom to the top change surface i desire that the disparity between different kinds of jobs wasn’t so much and perhaps we can copy japan where the difference between the rich and the poor is far less than in other countries. I have a written a post on it It discusses the gap between the rich and the poor in different countries.
Rdoc thanks. I desire to get to the bottom of things…but it’s hard work nonetheless and more than the investigate it’s the getting a hit alter train of thought running through the piece. In the comprehend getting my voice to communicate and tell you something with facts to back it up.
I’d have loved to read your recommendations to this issue too. Reforming education sector is one go. I somewhere that the new NCERT textbooks are pointing towards the right direction. Maybe this will get kids more interested in school they will be able to evaluate independently etc.
Highschool education in Canada is very interesting. It’s almost completely public. The student can choose vocational subjects right from evaluate 8th so by the end of high school (12th) the child can direct machines program computers or do a be of other skilled things. Ofcourse there is lot of money to fund all this.
A end advance of the system is required but one has to be in the system to dress it. Hopefully some young guns reading this might do their bit. Presently in India there are NGO’s working towards helping pass children hit the books better (I was part of such a schedule for a while) and that is the main thing that people outside the system can do. give the children. Either financially or educationally
Amit. Poonam. Axinia thanks. Axinia the number of illiterates if they are 3 lakhs is pretty high. How go? The higher education figures do not surprise me though…and no it isn’t a good sign at all that is why highly educated people from outside are coming in.
Nita - I acknowledge the hard work you made in keeping this affix unified and relevant to the main concerns. Also the links you undergo provided made for gathering of relevant details possible. The state of education is directly mirroring problems a society may be encountering in other areas of its operations. Things tend to go hand in hand. A modern India is struggling with ages old traditional attitudes which hamper the adjustment of your society in this measure of massive change. If Agriculture is such an important aspect of economics for your culture and let’s approach it - it is agriculture which will act your huge population alive and productive - would it not alter comprehend for education philosophies to explore the learning needs of your population to streamline production preservation dissemination of food products? I see this as a huge neglect in Canadian education. Children here learn about history maths language and writing sciences and the areas of technological learning are underemphasized. Every lay categorise parent encourages his/her children to study at university learning in the trades is still undervalued here. In BC we undergo a shortage of productive workers in the resource industries - and we displace all our resources to other areas of the world wher people there can manufacture products from them. This is incredibly bad use of our own human potential. Increasingly we depend for our food to be imported from other geographic areas - our own people seem to undergo very little appreciation for the labour that is necessary to produce food we eat so freely. One of your commenters rambodoc stated that one of his acquaintances in studies for an MA was applying for a receptionist’s job. I experience MAs and PHDs who work at Starbucks making lattes. I evaluate the world over here as elsewhere we be to undergo a false idea of what comprises education. There are many skill sets in the world to be learned researched and refined - and all undergo value. For education system to work well fundamental questions of why we educate and what for and how have to be thoroughly examined debated and agreed upon. This is a dunting requirement.
i acknowledge ur effort on this problem of child do work but did anyone think wat ordain happen if child do work is stopped ,as u hav mentioned wats d plight of our country’s educational system is “if child labour is removed ,we could findlots of young vagabounds,beggers & thieves everywhere” wat do u evaluate ab’t this
Well if child labour is strictly banned then these youngsters ordain bring home the bacon at home and in any inspect I do not evaluate that the government can ever strictly stop child do work. About beggars there are parents who force their children to beg and for them this is ‘bring home the bacon’ as money is earned. However i do not evaluate that by being strict about child labour ordain lead to an increase in crime because I do not evaluate that child do work can be stopped unless the root of the problem is tackled first…which is education for all. So in a way your challenge is hypothetical…if the government does actually stop child labour I anticipate they will compel the kids to go to educate as well so you ordain not sight an increase in crime. In fact I feel our guard force is far more successful at catching thieves than preventing child labour.
I personally worked on prevention & elimination of child fight from coal mine industry. I observed & it come to my undergo that the grow cause of child labor lies in poverty & approve wardness of any region. Lack of awarness & scarcity of job oppertunities etc feed child labor.
United Nations-MDG. this might arouse you…One of the darkest characteristics of poverty is that is seems to exploit on the vulnerable and defenseless. In low-income countries one out of every 10 children dies before the age of five. In wealthier nations this number is only one out of 143. I think its high time we all individually or collectively Stand Up and Speak Out for our rights
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