The Right to Education Act is being said full with
good and bad perspectives. Due to its primary concern to spread compulsory
education to the children aged 6 to 14 years-old, RTE Act is thought to bring
the ‘social class together’. Also, merging all the social classes, considered
as the good perspective of RTE act, the other side of reservations for the
backward classes was seen giving a negative impact.
Following the RTE as a tool for ‘social
transformation,’ it is also said that education is also leading to ‘obstruction
social transformation,’ thanks to reservation. With countless numbers of lower
class and underprivileged students in the batch, the government initiative ‘to
make Government schools in the national capital as good as the private schools’
is mounting.
A report released upon school education from diverse
region of the country said that government schools ‘harbor rank discrimination’
where the lower caste children are treated unequally and also is not allowed to
participate in cultural programs.
“Specific instances do not have to be quoted here;
as they are available readily and in abundance on the Internet. Indian schools,
concludes a study on the subject, are often sites of extreme forms of
discrimination,” said a researcher working to search the reason of increasing
school drop outs among Dalit and Adivasi children. Report is that trauma is
considered as one of the main reason of school dropout among students
facilitative with reservation.
Reservations in school and educational institutions
have ‘indeed helped several communities move out of backwardness.’ But also
some are found to be ‘cornered’ and taking advantages. ‘There is nothing wrong
in affirmative action programs, but the reason why so many communities want to
be declared as ‘backward’ points to the fact that the system needs some serious
tweaking’ sources said.
No comments:
Post a Comment