Dears,
The detention statistics of Std. VIII and Std.IX and the admission policy of
the school from Std.V upwards tells the true story of the HUNDRED PERCENT
RESULTS. In rare cases, as described by Frederick below, the "leaving
certificate" does the trick. Among, the "duds" who had to leave St.Britto HS,
one became a Mayor of Mapusa and another heads a very successfull chain of
hotels and travel agencies. Both of them obtained FIRST CLASS marks at SSC from
schools that St.Britto HS management then considered as "third class". So much
for the theory of Jesuit Education Paradigm [JEP] that Jesuit institutions
often prove by default rather than by compliance.
In my own town there was a Higher Secondary School that produced a large
number of FIRST CLASS [above 60%] results for Std.XII-Science by two methods:
1. Admitting only students with distinction [above 75%marks] at SSC. and
2.Ensuring that all the students obtained 30/30 or 29/30 marks in the
practical exams,specially in Chemistry.
Once the GCET ranking replaced the Std. XII-Science marks to determine
admission in professional colleges, the HSS no longer had any interest in
"ensuring" the full marks in practicals, even when the same teachers continued
for some more time. The institution is managed by the business community and
had a politician to head it. Obviously, it knows its business but not
education. The then Minister for Education and CM put his son in that HSS in
2001. The Chairman of the Goa Board of Education put his son elsewhere in the
same year. Clearly a difference in perception of education
Damodar HSS-Margao and Dempo HSS-Panaji are among institutions that follow
the same policy for admission as above. Hopefully, the similarity was not
extended to the conduct of the practicals, also.
When my sister became a Headmistress in DSE schools, she proved that she had
unlearnt all that she might have learnt while teaching at St.Britto HS as a
fresh graduate. The weak students were coached during remedial classes [a thing
that is half-heartedly encouraged by the Goa Education Department] even if it
meant extra work for herself and the teachers, some of them unwilling partners
in the students' progress. Obviously, all students were not equal to the task
and, in the initial years, many of them failed ... bringing down the passing
percentage of the school. However, two points need to be noted:
1.More students passed SSC, in absolute numbers. and
2. It is better to be SSC failed than to be detained in Std.IX. At least one
has the satisfaction of appearing for a SSC Board exam once in one's lifetime.
You bet there are may SSC students, passed or failed, who bless her name for
their achievement. The school is not worse off for the experience.
The ABC of Education is Attitudenal and Behavioural Change. If the process of
"schooling" has not brought about a POSITIVE change in attitude, AND the
behaviour of the student is not BETTER than it would have been but for the
schooling, it is NOT education.
Learning is not education. Change in attitude is education that shows through
one's behaviour. There is no difference in the attitude of a rich miser and a
poor miser or a mafia don and a slum lord, a prostitute and a call girl.
Education can change that.Neither distinction marks in Physics, Chemistry,
Biology, Psychology, Sociology, Mathematics nor even in Value Education and
Theology can change attitudes.
Mog asundi.
Miguel
Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 14:07:06 +0530
From: " Frederick [FN] Noronha * ???????? ???????? "
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Goanet] Hundred percent results
Do some institutions attain 100% by keeping out 'weak' students from
their portals? Avelino was in school -- actually, in the same class -- with me.
He knows that in 1978, our school, Britto's, also attained 100% results at the
SSC. But that was obtained by slaughtering all but 25 pupils the previous
year.
I respect the work of institutions like Don Bosco's night school
(Panjim) and crafts complex (Sulcorna), the Rudolf Schwartz initiatives at
Siolim and Pernem, and the like... which are mean to create some options and
jobs for those whom mainstream education sees as "weak" students. --FN
2008/5/11 D'Souza, Avelino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hundred percent results
> 11 May 2008, 0255 hrs IST,Anabelle Colaco,TNN
>
> PANAJI: Uday Bhalikar can't stop smiling. A few minutes after the
Higher Secondary School Certificate (HSSC) results were announced on
Saturday afternoon, the principal of Damodar Higher Secondary School of
Science in Margao got to know that his college had once again scored cent
> percent results.
>
> Up north, Fr. Paul D'Souza is similarly pleased as punch. Don Bosco
> Higher Secondary School of Science, Arts and Commerce, Panaji bagged
a full score in commerce and over 90 percent in science and arts.
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