Truancy appears to be a wide epidemic spurring across all of India, but instead of the students purposely missing school, it’s the teachers. As stated in the article and nationwide studies led by Mr. Muralidharan, a stunning 24 to 46 percent of rural Indian teachers were absent during random spot checks by education officers. Mr. Mishra, the individual behind fighting one of India’s biggest educational obstacles in the world, pursues to not only end the trend of teacher truancy, but also aims to understand why teachers choose not to step a foot in their classrooms in the first place. While the reasons are many and some valid, the fundamental idea of truancy is altogether associated with negative consequences, which Mr. Mishra strives to abolish …show more content…
But before these reasons are identified, it should be clearly noted that due to the consistent truancies of these irresponsible teachers, children’s already low performance in India has fallen even lower. Pratham Education Foundation, a nonprofit organization that conducts household surveys for informational and research purposes, has found that in 2014, less than 50 percent of the original amount fifth graders in rural India could read at second-grade level. What this meant was that however much the number of students that could read at second-grade level was years prior to recent survey findings, only half of that amount was able to read at that level now. Slowly, educational decline is gradually getting worse as teachers continue their truancy. According to the article, teacher truancy is the reason for educational failure in India among the youth. Also, the main reasons for teacher truancy is not due to lack of proper resources or facilities as one may assume, but simple because of laziness. In India, teaching jobs pay sufficiently well for those who are able to attain them, but the problem is from bias and political connections that get unqualified people teaching jobs. The laziness factor plays a huge role in that those who do end up successfully getting the job become too lazy to even go to work. Simply, they do not want to travel long distances to remote areas where many schools are located. Regardless of how these teachers may attempt to reason their decisions, the sole factor is strong enough to determine that their justifications cannot be measure to any degree of
Gatto begins his article by explaining that boredom is an everyday issue in modern schooling. Teachers struggle with boredom due to the attitudes and behavior of students and find it exhausting to teach kids when they behave in an immature manner. However, students also become frustrated with the repetition of useless information, as well as being forced to fit society’s standards. Gatto shifts the focus to his thoughts on the importance of mandatory schooling. He thinks that the lengthy school days are completely unnecessary.
John Taylor Gatto in his essay “Against School” explains the lack of motivation that students have to the educational system of the USA. He also explains the damage that the system makes to both, students and teachers, by the non-interesting topics they are taught class. Furthermore, he enlightens the indifference of students towards the teacher, seem as incompetent and unprepared. In addition, he also highlights the dark side of the school system which intends to brainwash and rescind the ideas from students. He addresses a main goal of the educational system; convert juveniles into the next docile and manageable generation. Wherefore, he proposes an educational system that should be structured and not controlled. In addition,
John Taylor Gatto in his essay “Against School” explains the lack of motivation that students have to the educational system of the USA. He also explains the damage that the system makes to both, students and teachers, by the non-interesting topics they are taught in class. Furthermore, he enlightens the indifference of students towards the teacher, seem as incompetent and unprepared. In addition, he also highlights the dark side of the school system which intends to brainwash and rescind the ideas from students. He addresses a main goal of the educational system; convert juveniles into the next docile and manageable generation. Wherefore, he proposes an educational system that should be structured and not controlled. In addition, he demonstrates
Students and teachers are both stuck, and in order to have a successful school system we must have happy teacher. To bring exciting lesson plans and less bored students, we need happy teachers, in order to have happy teachers the government needs to allow teachers to teach how they
Kozol argues that the lack of education not only inhibits the lives of illiterates, but greatly affects the lives of their children as well. He states, “Illiterates cannot read the letter the children bring home from their teachers. [...] they cannot help with homework. They cannot write letters to the teacher. They are afraid to visit in the classroom. They do not want to humiliate their children or themselves” (188). Ensuring that the next generation is literate and prepared with the knowledge to function out in the world is crucial to stopping the spread of illiteracy. As the references state, illiteracy complicates matters of education for the children of illiterates, making it more difficult for them to overcome the shortcomings of their parents. Illiterates themselves also face their own struggle with education. Kozol states that “Illiterate mothers, as we shall see, already have been cheated of the power to protect their progeny against the likelihood of demolition in deficient public schools and, as a result, against the verbal servitude within which they themselves exist” (189). His statement reinforces the difficulty that illiterates face when it comes to educating their own children, and how they are completely helpless to provide any meaningful help when it comes to ensuring a proper education for both themselves and their
Otherwise, why now the parents spend a lot of money to send their children to a good school to study, because the school education environment to the children’s influence is very important. When Wes A moved to Bronx, his mother had made a decision to send her children to private school after her seeing how poor the public school system had become, so she worked multiple jobs to manage the cost and relied on her parents to take care the children before and after school while at work. “My mother decided soon after our move to the Bronx that I was not going to public school. She wasn’t a snob, she was scared.”(47) Because she knew, if the children are growth of a bad education environment, the children of the world to know nature will be distorted. Without a good education, there is also no habits; No good sense, and also there will be some bad behavior. Today, the rate of crime is high; almost all can find the root cause of their growth environment. Maybe the lack of discipline, discouraged by mistake friends or too much stress, but all shows the importance of good education environment for children to grow
The article, “Education, poverty and schooling: a study of delhi slum dwellers”, highlights that “education positively influences poverty reduction, while poverty, or low income, adversely affects the quality and quantity of education”. This model is very much apparent in Jackie’s life. As she lacked formal education in the early stages of her life, she remained in the cycle of poverty even into her adulthood. Without the knowledge of how to change things and the inability of doing so, it is very much difficult, if not impossible, for her to get out of this infinite
While some secondary schools do not disregard all standards of teaching, it is becoming more and more common for educators to converge with the increase in unearned grades of students. When such occurrences as this happen, the “disengagement compact, a term coined from George Kuh, [where there is an] agreement between teachers and students, ‘I’ll leave you alone if you leave me alone.’ ” (Allahar and Côté 2). This means that the teacher will not put too much effort into teaching the students, so long as he/she does not have to mark as many papers or worksheets. This lack of effort from both groups is a main cause of grade inflation.
Notice that Third World countries have the largest amounts of illiterate people. It’s not a mystery that people living in poverty don’t have easy access to an education like citizens who are well-off do. This continues to be one of the most prominent reasons that certain countries aren’t successful: because a nation full of educated people will have the knowledge to develop their country. Impoverished people have many disadvantages when it comes to being formally educated. The hardships of obtaining a proficient education in poverty struck countries is caused by heavy workloads on children, oversight of education by illiterate people, and shortage of money put into school systems.
Today, illiteracy threatens over 785 million adults over the world and more than 250 million children of primary school age. Education remains an inaccessible right for them around the world and they don`t have the awareness of necessary to reach books, gain knowledge, improve their lives and realize their dreams. This would greatly impede the social and economic development of those countries where they live.
Schooling for ages 5 to 14 is compulsory in Sri Lanka. The five stages of education in Sri Lanka include: primary, junior secondary, senior secondary, collegiate and tertiary [8]. Even though Sri Lanka claims a total adult literacy rate of 91.2% and a total youth literacy rate of 98.15% [9], it still faces challenges in its free education system. One of the main challenges Sri Lanka faces is tertiary education pressure. The tertiary enrolment ratio is only 6% out of which only 2% are full-time students (refer to Appendix 2). Also, there are only 13 universities with the capability to admit 13,000 students annually against the 75,000 students requiring admission each year. A large number of students seeking free education in state universities are being denied admission due to limited places available [10]. Talking about free education in general, children from financially stable families tend to stay longer in schools than children from poorer backgrounds (refer to Appendix 3). This is because of the other costs apart from tuition fees like uniforms, transport, stationery etc. [11]. Mr. Rohan Senarath, the Executive Director of Coalition for Education Development and former Save the Children in Sri Lanka programme specialist for education sums up the reasons for such problems in his article which includes: teacher biases/personal choices, struggle for lower income families, family mind-set of supporting
First important reason why students drop out school is tuition expenses. In high schools and lower education, most of schools are funded by government, so parents does not much their budget for their children. In higher education, however, parents have to pay tuition. That is a painful problem for poor family. In poor families, they have low salary. Every single dollar is worth for them to survive such as homeless. They better have money for food than go to university because fo...
The role of education in overall social and economic progress is widely recognized. The right to education has been enshrined as a fundamental right in the Constitution of India, which states that: “the State shall provide free and compulsory education to all children aged six to fourteen years in such a manner as the state may, by law, determine.” The literacy rate in India has been constantly rising, improving from 64.8% in the 2001 census to 74.04% in the 2011 census. Both the central and the state governments have been paying increased attention to the need to provide “education for
In India there are still many villages which fall into the clutches of illiteracy in a worse manner than the others. The moneylenders, the zamindars, the contractors manipulate them into believing facts that further deteriorates their position. They are devoid of their basic rights, of the privileges that they are offered by the constitution of India as a measure to bring equality. Illiteracy has not only pangs of economic descent but also it is a major lapse in the overall growth of not only a person but the society as a whole. Illiteracy widens the gap between the rich and the poor. It limits the mentality of a person into thinking that the world is just a surreal blur and is confined to the four walls of their humble abode or the boundaries of their state. They live and die in darkness, building a home on the catacomb of their dreams. The effect of illiteracy is so deep rooted that people deny accepting that it is a curse on their lives. They continue to believe in the myths and fancies which is their further fall. Illiteracy not only attacks the self esteem of a person but he is forced to earn a meager income. He is
Another important social contribution made by teachers to society is the aspect of leadership and guidance (Singh and Samiti). Teachers are perhaps, the best examples of guiders and leaders in a community. As such, teachers demonstrate to the society how a dynamic leader should behave and act (Collay 32). Apart from being...