On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Gautam John<[email protected]> wrote:
> While scrapping the 10th Standard exams is all well and fine, in the > Govt. school system it is the only public examination that children > face. Without this, there really is no way to figure out how the > school system is doing. So I'm a little unsure of this. The decision is getting mixed reactions. Good to see a thought of education reforms coming up from the ministry. Are we heading towards a Credit Score Based Education system? The reasoning is quite true that it puts a lot of pressure on the students. Though we need to have exams at some point. It has cultural aspect too. I grewup in contrast of two cultures, I was a Josephite in Bangalore. As a student I used to think If I could get a seat into St Joseph Arts and Science College or College Of Commerce. Well my cousins in Andhra used to worry about getting into coaching centers entrances for IIT/JEE or AIIMS . I used think if I get into to the school cricket A team. That would be a ticket to college of commerce. During my 10th, my dad got transferred to Mysore, I joined a school called Sadvidya, got a total culture shock, from a Jesuit catholic school to a brahmin School, where a select group of students are put in something called the "cream section" and they are grilled from morning 8 to night 8 with special notes and special exams. You would surely feel left out of the crowd , if you did not belong cream section. > As for the rest, I'm all for private schools both primary and > secondary. The market does a far a better job than the Govt. ever > could. Privatization of schools has lead to competition among schools. Earlier this year I took a trip to uttarkhand, at least every village seemed to have a government primary school. I 'm impressed with the effort government has put into primary education. Thought, not open many private schools in Andhra and Jharkand have mass copying system in place,for state ranks. Now the ranking system has been abolished in Karnataka . It would be great if college accept students who are home schooled or have been through open schooling. If the government can standardise on a nationwide SAT kinda examination. It will be tough to crack to get a competitive exam without ranking system at the school level. Privatization has its advantages of getting reforms in education reservation system. regards -- Ramakrishna Reddy GPG Key ID:31FF0090 Fingerprint = 18D7 3FC1 784B B57F C08F 32B9 4496 B2A1 31FF 0090
