The Journey To The School

  

The Great Indian Education System- sounds good , doesn’t it ? But here in India , the sound does not matter, first you must be one of the 74.04% of our population. Wondering why ? That’s ‘cause the rest of the population is illiterate. If you are able to read this, then you must be one of the fortunate ones. So first and foremost, access to education must be made available to all.

And there are different levels to this. First, a school must be accessible to you, and your family’s mindset must be modern enough to send you to one. But considering the fact that most Indian people consider education as a boon and as a path to success in life, this must not be difficult.

The second aspect , is that even if you reach the school somehow, there must be teachers to teach in them. Believe it or not , there are tons of schools where you find only one teacher, or worse, none at all. This is an extremely grave situation, and can happen for a variety of undefined reasons. Even if there are adequate teachers, you must be lucky enough to get the good ones.

The third ,final and the most important aspect , is the enactment of the principle of equality. Now that you’ve got your school , teachers, and the books with the lunch (mid-day meal scheme) provided by the government , you must be schooled as equally as anyone else, regardless of whether you study in a private or public school, right? But that is not the case here....some government schools are so poorly maintained, that you couldn’t even imagine them to be so worse. ( But again , there are exceptions here too, with greatly maintained public schools in existence).These poorly maintained schools can sow a sense of inequality in the children’s minds, and also creates the biggest loss one can ever have : the loss of dignity. You might think of this as a very small problem, but think of it. The only thing the differentiates the public schools from the private sector are the dignities of the students as well as teachers. They feel ashamed to not be able to study or teach in better private schools with better infrastructure. This may indirectly become the reason of dislike of school and lower the academic performance of the child.

So, as you read, the journey to the school is not a simple one and it is our duty and responsibility to at least try to make other underprivileged students traverse this journey with us.