{"id":35704,"date":"2018-11-01T11:27:33","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35704"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:57:33","slug":"failing-indias-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/failing-indias-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Failing India\u2019s children:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-opinion\/failing-indias-children\/article19468533.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Failing India\u2019s children<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government\u2019s proposal to amend the Right to Education Act and allow States to drop the no-detention policy at the primary and middle school levels will have far-reaching negative consequences for the education scenario.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The proposal, which will give States the choice to detain children in classes 5 and 8, does not consider socio-economic factors and the state\u2019s limitations in providing education, especially for the weaker sections.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>The drawbacks of the proposal:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1.The government\u2019s latest proposal goes against the spirit of the RTE, which is a fundamental right guaranteeing free and compulsory education till the age of 14.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2.According to the Ministry of Human Resource Development, the dropout rate in elementary school was about 4% in 2014-2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Detaining children on the basis of examinations will lead to an increase in the dropout rate. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Parents may feel the child will be better off going to work as he\/she can help bring additional income to the family and learn a skill for survival.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Economically disadvantaged groups do not have access to private tuitions to train their children to perform better the following year in the same class.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This will mean more youngsters out of school with no prospects of a productive future.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>In a society that considers the girl child a burden, and a country which has the second highest number of child marriages, parents will only find another reason to marry the girl off rather than send her to the same class for the second consecutive year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The RTE should not be curtailed for any reason. Many children from weaker sections have benefited from this right.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taking away the guarantee the Act offers up to the middle school level is not in the goodwill of the children.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failing India\u2019s children:\u00a0 Context: The government\u2019s proposal to amend the Right to Education Act and allow States to drop the no-detention policy at the primary and middle school levels will have far-reaching negative consequences for the education scenario. 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