Rethink promote till Class VIII policy, says Parliamentary Committee
Posted on: 29/Apr/2013 5:32:10 PM
A Parliamentary committee has urged the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development to rethink the policy of promoting students of all classes till Class VIII. According to a report, the committee feels that such a policy would not motivate students to work hard.
‘A child may not be mature enough to understand the implication of being required to sit for formal examination from Class IX onwards and obtain the minimum benchmark’, says the report.
However, one academician said, ‘You cannot detain a student citing that he has not scored the required marks. It is scientifically proven that everyone is educable and if one couldn’t score marks isn’t the system responsible? Group learning is being encouraged under the present system. If it does not work, it means that proper learning hasn’t taken place. There are many issues to be dealt with like poor standard of teaching, overloaded school curriculum and lack of monitoring of schools by officials. Setting a better climate for learning is the need of the hour.’
