dear sri natarajan,
i am a retired professor in chemistry, from a govt. college. from my experience, i would like to tell u that it is the same in all govt. schools and colleges. a teacher, teaching a higher standard, always finds his/her ward lacking in proficiency wrt his/her earlier classes. in this forum v r expected to project only positive sides. so, what v need to do is to separate slow learners and teach them in a separate stream. also, there must b an urge in the student's mind to learn. v have to concentrate on those who respond and v must try to bring others round to our way. i wish u good luck in ur efforts. pl. remember v r working in a time where the central govt. is planning to abolish tenth standard public exams and there r people who support such a move. and v have human rights advocates who r against giving any punishments to the bad elements amongst the students. so, remember the words of gita, " do thy duty; fruit is not thy concern." i once again wish u success in ur efforts. remember that there will b at least one person who will b benefited by ur efforts. as time passes by, this number will grow and u will realise that u have done a great service to the down trodden.
prof. a.venkateswaran
thanjavur
camp: henley on thames
uk
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>
> Dear Friends,
> As you all know, at Dream India, we have been conducting classes at a few
> corporation and government schools in Chennai. I am writing this email with
> a hope to find some solution to the problems we have in our weekend
> classes.The standard of the students [ 8th and 9th] is really poor and many
> of them find it difficult to identify alphabets and worst cannot read and
> write Tamil [ even after 10 years of Tamil] correctly.
>
> When I discussed the situation with one of the HM's [ I do not want to bring
> the name here ] I am close with, I got to know the following,
>
>
> - With due respects to ABL, the students fail to learn the letters. This
> hampers them a lot when they come to sixth standard. Example, they can say
> "apple" as soon as we show an apple, but if you write in Tamil or English as
> apple, they cannot read. Teachers at sixth and higher are forced to teach
> alphabets and letters from sixth standard. I also heard special instruction
> being given NOT to teach syllabus for one month or so but letters. But
> learning these at sixth really does not help them. They pick up slow and
> hence everything as a result suffers.
>
>
> - There is a unwritten rule that 85% MUST pass till 9th Standard. This
> has resulted in reduction of pass mark to 25 and NOT 35 as usual. Even then,
> only 30% of students actually score this 25. Teachers are forced to give 10
> to 15 marks as bonus and pass them. The result: everyone passes and there is
> no real difference between a hard worker and even without knowing to write
> their parents name they come to 8th and 9th.
>
>
> - Gone are the days when students had respect for teachers. These days
> Government rules have given more freedom to students and tried up hands of
> teaching staff. In one of the schools where a lady is a HM, it seems a
> student and father both came drunk and did not leave the school premises. A
> lady she is, she could not do anything and was at their mercy to leave the
> premises.
>
>
> - Students use cell phone, earn money by working in night, come drunk,
> break the table, bench etc and do all bad things which actually influences
> other good students too. As soon as they have some cash, they think they own
> the world.
>
>
> - Teachers feel really bad that their hands have been tied. They are not
> supposed to punish the children. The maximum they can do is ask students to
> run a few rounds in the ground. In the process, the student fakes fainting
> and creates a big fuss.
>
>
> - Parents participation is absolutely nil. In most of the families,
> situation is something like this - Father drinks, drinks and only drinks.
> Mother does some house hold work and runs the family. They assume kids are
> going to school. In a few cases, student took a color dress with him and
> changed dress to play with elders [ who failed in tenth already ] and return
> home exactly as if he comes from school. Only after a week, when teachers
> asked his mom to meet them through someone about his long absence, this was
> discovered.
>
>
> - How is the situation in rural areas? Is the situation there better,
> especially the respect to teaching staff from students? How is ABL doing
> there? Do they also face the same problems that are being faced by these
> teachers?
>
>
> We are trying to bring up the 30 - 40 kids we interact with and it is
> working, but what about the rest 200+ is the question we have. We are not
> full time workers and it hurts.
>
> I feel these are fundamental problems that needs to be addressed and simply
> passing students is really harming them than doing any good. There are many
> eminent leaders in this group and we would like to hear from you. A lot of
> our action2020 groups work on education and hence your thoughts and
> solutions would help us all. Looking forward to hearing a workable solution
> from you all.
>
> Thank you all.
>
> Regards,
> Natarajan
> Dream India
>
> "Hesitating to act because the whole vision might not be achieved, or
> because others do not yet share it, is an attitude that only hinders
> progress." - Mahatma
> http://di2020.
>
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