Hubby and I were discussing a conversation that he had …..It was shocking…
Children these days have changed a lot…schools cannot function the way they used to…children cant be scolded or warned if they dont do what they are expected to do in school….it sounds like the US culture. I have heard that if children in US are scolded by parents ….they can dial 911 and the police will be home to arrest the parents….
the situation it seems is somewhat the same here….if teachers ask children too many questions…then children feel PRESSURIZED…parents don’t like it either…so parents come to school to complain about the teacher..
Mobile phone have become like pencil box….every child has one….parents think it is mandatory for their child to carry a mobile….
Children are too rude and get away with anything they do….
I don’t understand this….
Is this how our parents felt when we were to go to school…???/.because it would have been very different from their times….if yes…then this is the start of a generation gap…
Or are the parents these days spoiling their children like this…??
I read recently somewhere that a kid of 3rd or 4th standard committed suicide for having failed in an exam….so schools are rethinking if they should exams for students till come to high school….
What the hell….I don’t understand logic….
First of all…..such a small kid knows what is suicide and how it must be done? I dint know…and I dint know that if I failed in an exam I must do something like this….
Second of all….competition is not just if u give an exam or not….if there is no exam it just keeps the kid away from the truth about his own capabilities and does not really help in any way.
The schools should rather teach the children how to face failure….not giving exams I don’t really think is a solution to the problem…
There are many schools these days…they are called international….these schools don’t have exams till a certain level and then they start writing exams….
Its good that they teach the kids differently….but they must remember one thing….once the children finish schooling and come out….they will have to anyway face the world…and this world is going to have exams…less luxury…more conventional learning….the kids must be able to accept this.
At this stage the kid is already quite older and not a kids anymore….then it is more difficult for a kid to face failure ….
Are the schools preparing the children to face the world?
I saw one kids report….he is still in Montessori (before LKG)….his teacher has rated him based on his responses in the school…..the rating is about his leadership skills etc…
Is this kid doing his MBA???NO….then I don’t understand what this is all about…I ma not sure if this is correct…
Our schools are trying to become international… I am happy that we are trying to adapt to these new teaching techniques….but at what cost?are we getting too westernized?
It is good if we want our families to be so western….but I don’t think most of us want it that way….then why are we doing it?
A kid threatens parents that he will commit suicide if they don’t sign his bad report card….how good is this??
I know that there are some parents who keep asking the kid to get the first rank…study and study…..some teachers who hit kids really bad and bruise them…..I agree it is wrong….But that does not mean we go to the other extreme…now the kid threatens everyone else….this is like aliens taking over the world or something….
Do we always have to work in extremes? Cant we do some moderate stuff?
Or is this all because kids are learning too much a very young age?if you see…the schools have all stuff at LKG…
When we were in school…we learnt our lessons in school. Then we came home….after that some went for dance class…some for music…some karate….etc..
But now schools have included all this in the curriculum…so every kid learns all of these things….I think this is pressurizing.
Not every kid may be good at everything and needs to have interest in everything….but now they are forcibly taught….isnt that bad?
New ways of teaching is good. Children need to learn more than just text books….but they must be taught the right things through the right channels..
Moral stories are important…but they have almost become obsolete…
Schools have just become another commercial stuff….want to make money??…start a school….
Andthe u must say….admissions only if both parents are educated…if you ask why….only then the child can be taught at home…
My question: if educated parents have to teach the lessons at home….then why pay the exorbitant fees to the school…
The child should rather connect with the family at home…
Give them a project work of drawing a family tree…let them know information about their own family…that’s what India is all about…
I dint pay even half of the school fees of these days for my engineering…and I am not talking about 1980s….I finished engineering 4 years ago.
My sister finished 2 years ago with a payment seats…even she paid only half the fees of schools these days…
Is inflation going on at this rate?
There are so many new schools…admissions are all limited…
Now the books, uniform etc has to be purchased at the school. The amount is given to the school during fees payment….
I might have a uniform of last years which is still fine…but now I have to take a new one as the school fees comprises of it….
Way to go schools…make money out of it…..
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Best part is…at the end of the day…the kid must score marks in the exams so that he could get a seat for higher education and then a job….that still stays the same…so then what is the point saying all this….finally if he is not doing well in academics…no point teaching him dance and music all at school
It is just like giving the bitter medicine embedded in a sweet…
All these days parents used to just ask the kid to study…but now they give them all these activities to have fun and then indirectly tell them now u better study…is that what it is?
I have asked so many questions in my post…..I still don’t have answers to them….
Just hope that these things don’t spoil the growing environment for children ….they are our tomorrow….
