NGO’s Academicians call for Common School System

NGO’s Academicians call for Common School System

Chennai: The Campaign for Equal Standards of School Education represented by NGOs and academicians called for a common school system to ensure access to equal and quality education to all children in the State on Saturday. The campaign will submit its final recommendations to the Muthukumaran Committee by December 15.

In the State-level consultation held in the city, the campaign deliberated upon the draft memorandum to be submitted to the Muthukumaran Committee appointed by the State Government.

Highlighting various problems that plague the school education system, the convener of the committee Virgil D Sami said, “The multi system education run under various Boards has caused discrimination among the children. This multiplicity of various Board of education and the curriculum must be abolished.”

The campaign has also reiterated the need for all the schools irrespective of its management to function as ‘neighbourhood schools’ and for education to be State funded in all schools up to Standard XII.

Stressing the need for revising the school curriculum to make it more child – centered and burden-free as recommended by the Yashpal Committee, she said, “Any average child should be able to deal with curriculum within class hours and without any recourse to outside class coaching.”

Some of the other key recommendations include replacing the current system of examination with an experiential one and placing more trust in the teacher and a continuous evaluation system; making punishment and verbal abuses and sexual harassment to children as an offence and abolishing selection process into any class by promoting the neighbourhood policy.

The campaign has also called for limiting the teacher-student ratio to 1:20, promoting work-centered education as integral part of the curriculum and bringing in a ban on private tuitions.

Vigil also said that there was a need for stepping up infrastructure in the schools. Citing the Justice Sampath Commission, the campaign also said that there were many nursery schools that had mushroomed in the past few decades without obtaining the mandatory recognition from the government and they were run without adequate infrastructure.

“There is also a need to provide additional support to the children with special needs and residential schools for tribals and schools for backward classes,” she added

NGO’s Academicians call for Common School System

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