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In their hurry to implement the marks normalization scheme, Education Minister of Maharashtra is overlooking the plight of the
“normal child”. I call the average child, the one who scores between 70 and 80 percentile, “normal” because that’s what the average child scores. There are only two people to blame for the mess that our kids are in today, parents and the authorities. Tell me, why should a bright kid who scores a decent 75% (I don’t care about the board) not get into a prestigious college like H.R or N.M.? Why should the child be denied a fair chance to go to an institution of his choice? We are subjecting our children to humiliation, comparison and failure at a very tender age. There was a time when First Class scores (60%+) were considered excellent, those people who scored them ages ago turned out fine. Their life is a success story, so why this pressure to score 90+ percentage?
I remember in my time (1989), we had got an extra 5% added to our ICSE scores by the State, because they thought that our papers were tougher. Now the same State feels that the corrections of ICSE papers are lenient! I want to as the State, how can they support this statement, have they gone through corrected ICSE papers? People staying in glass houses should not throw stones at others, it is common knowledge that SSC papers have been found on railway tracks, dustbins etc. Many incidents have to light over the past years, where it has been found that the proper teachers did not correct the papers.
Whatever the case, in this scuffle between parents, Exam Boards and authorities, it’s the innocent children who are suffering the most. After being robbed of a carefree youth thanks to those blessed tuitions, now they are being robbed of a decent education.
I ask again; Where does the average child go?
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Society is building up immense pressure on children to groom them into super achievers. Childhood and all the fun is lost in the game.
I also feel sad for children who are gifted with special talent (music, drawing, sports etc). These gifted children also have no choice but to get into the rat-race. This inspite of having so many career options compared to earlier days.
With the kind of population, specially in metros, athorities found it hard to accomodate these ’normal’ kids prompting them to formulate this methodology wherein a ’cut off’ marks system was designed.
But yes, with changing time, things should change as well. So the need of the hour is a review by the education officials so that we can prevent the agony and mental turmoil has to undergo for the denial to get admiited SOLELY because of the ’cut off’ marks.
This post of yours have made me dig up my sad, past experience too. Lemme share it with all.....
Scoring 81% in 10th std in the year 1989, I had thought that my dream college, Mithibai, will welcome me with open arms. (About 20 years back 81% was equivalent to today’s 91%) However after accepting my form and I was royally denied admission Missed the bus by just 1 mark.
Can’t get over it till date :(
But look at the bright side...you turned out a great success...inspite of not being from Mithibai!!
The commercialization of education and political interest are to be blamed.
Won’t be surprised to see a system of common entrance test being implemented to get admissions in colleges.
