Rubbish the tenth Board exam! It’s too taxing for the kids. Bring out two levels of Maths exams. Students cannot cope up! Take only grade exams! It will help them to ‘pass’.

How long are we going to let children be surrounded by the ‘feel good’ factor? By the time they really need to cope up with the competition in this world where there are no exams to be given in a classroom, they are bewildered.

It is time to stop blaming the system. No education system can ever be foolproof. And why do we have a jaundiced eye of looking at exams as a means to an end of getting a job? How about the discipline and systematic organizational skills those are required to ‘study’? How many times have we shown them how to do things in a correct manner? Most of the times, children are simply bundled off for tuitions. Is the school so bad?

OK. Fine. Granted. The school is terrible, the teachers are not teaching properly. But are the books bad too? Can the child not read the book? Have we ever initiated the thought process that the shortcomings in the students are due to lack of concentration or sheer laziness in making an effort to understand?

How many times have we set a routine for ourselves? How many times is it that we pay our bills in time? Ensure a system where proper mealtimes are adhered to. Not indulge in gifts for the children to make up for lost time. All these may seem unconnected to the process of education. But to think of our whole lifestyle as a system, we are creating an environment where it is so easy to blame somebody else and ‘feel good’.

This is the role play the children are being exposed to. Not getting good grades? The teachers are bad… the tuition teacher is not paying enough attention. (I pay her / him a bomb to make sure my child studies!) We very often make excuses for their shortcoming unknowingly. It is so easy to blame the system … but who or what is the system? Have we done anything in implementing the system in a fruitful manner?

Let us steer our children onto the path of hard work, a disciplined life. Nothing will stop them from succeeding in whatever they wish to do or have to do.  …. And we have to make the beginning by following that path!!!!!!!!!!!!

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