17 May,2011 06:45 AM IST | | Kranti Vibhute
Many students and parents are no longer excited about academic results thanks to the Right to Education Act
Butterflies in the stomach, the queasy feeling before collecting the report card and anxiety bouts just before opening it are some of the emotions which present-day students and their parents are slowly becoming oblivious to. Thanks to the Right to Education Act, which does not allow any student till Std VIII to be held back by the school, parents are no longer excited about their ward's performanceu00a0-- their child will surely pass, and as far as merit is considered, the grading system has dampened the enthusiasm further.
Worrying disinterest: Teachers say many parents have not even
collected their kids' results. Representation pic
Shabnam Sheikh (name changed) a teacher from a school in the central suburbs, said, "So many results are still lying in the school. Parents have not bothered to collect their wards' result and have left for vacations. This is because they know their kids will be promoted."
Educationists say the Act has brought relief to many students and their parents, but worry that a lax attitude towards the child's performance might hamper his future results. Sudhir Shrivastav (name changed), principal of au00a0 school in the western suburbs, agreed that parents and kids are no longer excited about the final results.
"It's not a good sign because students' performance will suffer in the future if they incorporate such an attitude towards studies."u00a0 P Pawar, education inspector, western zone, said, "There is no state board rule that taking the result is compulsory for parents, but it is sad that parents' attitude towards the final results has changed. There is no excitement left in parents in checking how their child has performed."
