Rethink promote till Class VIII policy, says Parliamentary Committee
Posted on: 29/Apr/2013 5:32:10 PM
A Parliamentary committee has urged the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development to rethink the policy of promoting students of all classes till Class VIII. According to a report, the committee feels that such a policy would not motivate students to work hard.
�A child may not be mature enough to understand the implication of being required to sit for formal examination from Class IX onwards and obtain the minimum benchmark�, says the report.
However, one academician said, �You cannot detain a student citing that he has not scored the required marks. It is scientifically proven that everyone is educable and if one couldn�t score marks isn�t the system responsible? Group learning is being encouraged under the present system. If it does not work, it means that proper learning hasn�t taken place. There are many issues to be dealt with like poor standard of teaching, overloaded school curriculum and lack of monitoring of schools by officials. Setting a better climate for learning is the need of the hour.�
