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7. Parents’ Awareness
As most Indian parents are uneducated, they do not understand the meaning of
education in their children’s lives. A large number of parents discontinue their
children’s education and push them into low-wage employment or early marriage
shackles. Such parents are cruel and treat their children as slaves.
In the absence of educational culture at their homes and because of utterly abusive
education system in the government schools of India, most such students keep
loitering in dirty streets and fall victim to bad habits such as drug addiction, theft,
eve-teasing, scuffles, and so on.
Schools should arrange special awareness classes for parents so that they could
take care of their children’s education. They should also be taught the
family-planning norms so that they should not produce more children who become a
burden on the entire society.
8. Class Promotion
It is perhaps the worst practice in schools to promote students to the next class
without assessing their performance in exams. If a student is not able to clear the
exams of a particular class with at least 50% marks, they should never be sent to the
next class. The rule should apply to all students of all classes.
The government should also stop the monetary allowance of those students who fail
to clear their exams. Why should the public money be wasted on the students who
are not capable to learn?
9. Examination Surveillance
All of us know that the corruption level in all types of exams is increasing in India.
The students in Class 10 or Class 12 do not know even the basic arithmetic involving
addition, subtraction, etc. They cannot write even in Hindi and their understanding of
English is pathetic, while school teachers are not quite competent to teach English.
In other words, the knowledge level of students who clear Class 10 or Class 12
exams is worse than even those who are at the primary level in a good education
environment. Then how do such students clear Class 10 or Class 12 exams?
This is all because of mass copying in schools allowed by school teachers to show
the better performance of schools. If such students are asked to sit again in closely
monitored exams, nine out of every ten students will fail.
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