THE BOARD FAILS YET AGAIN!

This year the SSC results have broken all damn records! With students scoring 100% (infact there were few who went above 100 too!) and almost 13,000 students scoring above 90%(more than the double of last year), I wonder what can be worse? Getting such high score today is a mere cake walk with rules like ‘best of five’!


However, continuing the tradition from past couple of years, even this year the board’s try at benefiting their students goes in vain as parents battle it out over the unjustified new rule.

From past 3 years the board is trying something or the other so as to make life easy for state students. However, exactly opposite is observed. Every year there is commotion over the admissions. Things are stranded. Everyone is confused over what exactly is going on. And at the end its students who are at loss.

The Board has been trying its best to bump up the percentage of the student. Instead, why don’t they find ways of elevating the intellectual level of kids, the marks would consequently increase! Does a high score indicate the cleverness of a kid? Unfortunately, no! Infact, education to some extent has become a commercial business. You fill pockets of the concerned people and you get those extra marks which are actually meant for students who excel in sports. People run behind marks as if it is their food and water!

The board has decided not to fail any student till 8th std. This decision comes so as to lower the study pressure on kids and ultimately the suicide cases.

And what after that? What when they would have to bear a sudden pressure of exams? Would a child be ready to face them? Do you think his confidence would be high enough to confront challenges in future?

Look around and see the rising competition! Today every kid has to face the competitive scenario and has to learn to tackle it in correct way right from childhood! If a student couldn’t go along with ‘ABC’ itself, what sense it makes to promote him to the next class where he would learn ‘A for APPLE’?! If a student is not good in academics, he is not good in it! Tell him the truth! Let him face it! He need to be shown the fact so that he tries to find what field he excels in!

The board has also decided not to declare merit students now on, so that those who score low don’t feel the ‘inferiority complex.’ Wtf??!!! What about those students who worked day-night to achieve great heights??!!! Just because somebody else couldn’t score good that dosent mean you take away credit from the deserving one. By hiding those merit students would the reality change??? Do you think that those who scored less would become more intellectual??? No, absolutely not. In fact by keeping them away from the truth today, they would land in bigger trouble tomorrow.

A kid who cannot drive a cycle is told that he can, just to make him feel better. And with that confidence, tomorrow when he takes up a bike to drive, imagine the consequences, they can even be fatal…! Exactly same applies in educating a child.

Say a parent makes sure that his child gets a degree, by hook or by crook. But do you think such degree-holders would in, anyway, be useful to society? Forget the society, do you think they would be useful to their ownself? Deep down the person would be shameful of himself.

All your fingers are different in shape, size and importance! So to make the little finger feel good do you cut all your fingers down to its size??? The little finger should understand that it is significant in its own way and the others in their own. Is it that my colleague would feel bad, so my boss wont even grant promotion to me?? My colleague has to digest the truth that I worked better than her and so I deserve better.

Am I jealous of the privileges my juniors are given? May be. But what bothers me more is, in a world where the competition and challenges are on an ascending ladder, by introducing such rules, would they, the future of India, be ready to face them? I doubt...

The board hasn’t just failed in applying its various rules but… it has failed in its real objective of giving us education in its real sense…! How do we achieve an improved and knowledge-based curriculum is the work of the think-tanks. I have just shared what I, as a student think.

(This article can also be read on the e-paper of MUMBAI MIRROR where it got published:
http://www.mumbaimirror.com/index.aspx?Page=article&sectname=CITY%20-%20Briefs&sectid=35&contentid=2010071720100715123502631b89206ee )