by K Vishwanath Reddy
Recently I visited a government primary school in my hometown in Chhattisgarh. It was my first work and I was shocked to see the situations. There is only one teacher for about 80 students. He is everything for the school, to my surprise; he was engaged in ‘Photography’ for the Election Commission. Students were left to study on their own often. In addition, like many schools in India, students from more than one class were getting education in the same room.
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| Students at the primary school |
I interacted with the students and I found their academic performance quite unsatisfactory. Many students even from class V were unable to read and they were uncomfortable with basic mathematical operations like addition, subtraction. I wanted to finish some chapters of their mathematics textbook, but could not finish even the first exercise. However, they are bright and fairly smart in general questions and aptitude. With few basic questions like ‘which district do you live?’ I tried some complicated questions like ‘Who is the government?’ The answer to the second part from a student of IV was ‘One who distributes free rice, wheat and other things at cheaper rate and also runs the country.’
I was leant that ‘Municipal Corporation’ runs this school, even than the situation is dismal. I can think about the situation in village schools. So much of money and resources is spent for education in India, but without a holistic strategy and that is why we do not have the optimum results ever.
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