Schooling the responsible
- Hueiyen Lanpao Editorial :: February 10, 2014 -
There are many ways to understand the status of a society through time tested approaches.
One may question the methodology adopted while conducting quantitative based research. However, this does not change certain given facts within a society despite the existence of temporal constraints dangling over sleepy heads.
For instance, the recent Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2014 for rural Manipur is not as impressive as observers over a period of time had imagined for the State.
The report noted that Manipur falls far below the national average on the Right to Education (RTE) indicators.
According to the report, only 34.5% of Manipur Government run schools served the Mid-Day meal on the day the schools were visited during the course of the collecting date as compared to 85.1% of Government Schools at the national level.
The report said that across India, 21.9% of Government Schools surveyed had no library. And in Manipur, an astounding 82% of schools did not library facilities.
What is even more disheartening is that over half of the schools visited in Manipur could not show any documents related to Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation (CCE) and 60% of the Schools surveyed reported not possessing School Development Plan (SDP) which has been made mandatory under RTE.
One significant finding worth mentioning is that Manipur has the highest private school enrolment in the country – 73.3% in 2014.
While taking note of the select data given in the highlights of the ASER report, it is vividly clear that there is a lot more to be done to extricate the situation from falling further, particularly for the government run schools.
While taking cognizance of the quantitative or qualitative facts, there is much to gain to keep track of path pursued by the State when it comes to the issue of schooling and basic learning.
It is time for those responsible for the dismal situation to unlearn whatever was being taught and practiced so far.
Another issue worth mentioning here is not about smooth implementation of policies being pushed down but also understanding the cause of poor pedagogical approach.
At the end of the day, those who have been deprived will remain silent due to numerous constraints and this points to the fact that those responsible for the dismal situation needed better schooling much more than the deprived.
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