Touching optimism....RTE.
Read the long and well crafted explanations of the concerned minister that seeks to allay the fears regarding RTE on a daily.
The banishing of corporal punishments is welcome.The move to pass all up to 10 th will be welcomed by all students.School would become so much more fun! A meeting place for friends to play, tease , gossip and learn only if one really wants to and thus have a whale of a time!School life would be one long picnic![ How i wish i were 4 0 years younger.]
The bit about rich and the poor kids getting to know each other and learning from each other ---for the rich an exposure to the rough and wild life of street smart kids that would make them more charitable and kindly towards them and for the poor a regular peek into the luxurious and cosseted life style of the rich which may motivate them to work hard to achieve such a life style ,is very touching.This optimism ,pure and simple to fight insurmountable class schisms made me choke with emotions ,for a moment!
As long as the burden of funding the attempts to create a classless, sharing and caring society is not passed on to the shoulders of hardworking middle class parents of school going children and as long as a child from a poor background is not made to feel an outsider, a misfit amongst well to do classmates ,i would be out of my mind to continue complaining against the RTE and incur the risk of being labelled bourgeoisie , a stumbling block by all the well meaning , enlightened members of a liberal society who seem to have given up on the State's ability to attract students from all strata of society.
Yet try as i might i am unable to shake off that wretched feeling that the state is trying to ride piggyback on its citizens in this matter.
The banishing of corporal punishments is welcome.The move to pass all up to 10 th will be welcomed by all students.School would become so much more fun! A meeting place for friends to play, tease , gossip and learn only if one really wants to and thus have a whale of a time!School life would be one long picnic![ How i wish i were 4 0 years younger.]
The bit about rich and the poor kids getting to know each other and learning from each other ---for the rich an exposure to the rough and wild life of street smart kids that would make them more charitable and kindly towards them and for the poor a regular peek into the luxurious and cosseted life style of the rich which may motivate them to work hard to achieve such a life style ,is very touching.This optimism ,pure and simple to fight insurmountable class schisms made me choke with emotions ,for a moment!
As long as the burden of funding the attempts to create a classless, sharing and caring society is not passed on to the shoulders of hardworking middle class parents of school going children and as long as a child from a poor background is not made to feel an outsider, a misfit amongst well to do classmates ,i would be out of my mind to continue complaining against the RTE and incur the risk of being labelled bourgeoisie , a stumbling block by all the well meaning , enlightened members of a liberal society who seem to have given up on the State's ability to attract students from all strata of society.
Yet try as i might i am unable to shake off that wretched feeling that the state is trying to ride piggyback on its citizens in this matter.
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