Education and exceptional norms
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: February 16, 2014 -
Invoking exceptional norms to deal with exceptional cases that affect the functioning of a society as seen from a Statist perspective have become more or less the order of the day.
Those in the helm of State’s affairs find it convenient to invoke available laws which they think will best treat symptoms of a gross disease that have literally consumed the anatomy of cherished values in a society.
While one can understand the inherent prejudice while enacting laws considered black, few have questioned the relevance of promulgating laws to deal with cases not directly related to dismembering peace and tranquility.
The tradition of promulgating Section 144 CrPC in areas within 100 metres of the examination Centres of High School Leaving Certificate Examination and Higher Secondary Examination till the end of the examinations to prevent mass copying and use of unfair means is one perfect sign of treating the symptoms of a disease rather than curing or preventing the same.
Prolonged tradition of resorting to such therapeutic approach has neither cured nor healed the patients. It has even failed to provide relief to the sick.
If mass copying and use of unfair means in examinations held in the State have become the normal practice, what will be the exact benefit of authorities invoking a section used primarily to deal with law and order situation.
Here, one should be reminded of the historical backdrop to the advent of Section 144 CrPC and why such a section has been inserted and given sanction.
The promulgation of the section during examinations only proves one point – disproportionate use of force to deal with crises of all sorts within a society without actually taking the bull by the horns.
Moreover, such tradition is one of the many ways to empty the rhetoric over any rationale of governance on an antique vessel without the bottom while refusing to identify what actually ails the education system.
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