Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) is punishing children and parents alike

Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) increased the workload on students and teachers. Students have to spend many many hours at home to prepare projects. They have to widely refer internet and they often copy contents without knowing what it is. They make drawings for projects without even knowing what they are. The burden is transferred to parents who have to heavily help their children to get good marks. Students performance are reflection of parents education, time, and family help they receive. The text books of SSA are stupid without any contents. Under the premises of stimulating critical thinking they have simply filled the text books with insignificant rubbish and no real contents. For contents they have to refer the internet or go to tuitions or depend on parents. Those poor kids who cannot afford the internet are in pathetic frustrating situation. The bags of school children have become very very heavy.

The entire education system is screwed up and much worse that what it was 30-40 years back.. morons are at the helm of affairs

Teacher Education Standards?? Read TOI article on corporal punishments to children in India

"Shockingly, the study found that the practice of giving electric shocks was also being followed in some schools" Barbaric school system in India.. Poor state of affairs of Teacher education..


The poor standards and insensitivity of school teachers is due to poor teacher education. In India teacher education in neglected and made a commodity for education merchants.

No fans in Classrooms; schools harassing children

Open letter to Minister and authorities

My children are studying in ******** School, *********. They report that since last many days there is no electricity in their classrooms. On further enquiry I understood that the school authorities are trying to save electricity charges by cutting off electric supply to lower classrooms. My children reports that they are suffering immense heat due in their classroom due to this. Is this not called child harassment?

Most classes have 60-70 students and there is no adequate ventilation or fans. This is the situation even in private schools collecting fees and donations.

Whom will the poor students complain?? Is there an administration machinery here that will look into the human rights aspects of school students?

Even grown ups these days do not sit in wooden benches in a crowded classroom of 60-70 pupils, suffering heat due to lack of fans, and listen to lectures of teachers from morning till evening every day for a whole year??

Government must intervene and ensure that schools provide adequate number of fans in the classrooms and also use them.

Optionals must be allowed from early schooling

All children are not similar or equal in their talents, interests and abilities. Forcing them to follow the same curriculum uptill 15 yrs is unnecessary and wasteful. Many students will reveal their aptitudes by middle schooling.


Why should we not have optional subjects allowed in schools itself. This will enable a student proficient in mathematics to choose more mathematics and less history. For students who are good in languages and who dislike mathematics should be able to adopt a softer mathematics and more of languages..


This will reduce child harassment in schools that is camouflaged as curriculum 

School managements must be made aware of child rights

Many schools use children not just for the educational purpose but for satisfying the needs of the school or its interest groups.

Children are often herded to attend programs participated by VIPs so that there is no shortage of audience in the hall.

Children are often taken out as procession through roads to propagate schools events even where the roads are very unsafe due to fast moving traffic.

Children are made to stand for hours, often under hot sun, to welcome some VIP when he or she arrives.

School authorities often do not even bother to distribute food and water to the children when they make the children work for them.

Waiting endlessly for the VIP without food, or water and disregarding health problems if any

Children wait for some VIP to arriave

Children are taken out as procession disregarding unsafe traffic on roads