What is your % ?

"What is your % ?" This is the question we ask our children frequently to measure their academic brilliance. No doubt academic brilliance is an added advantage in the competitive field. Parents always want their children to have high scoring in exams.

When they score 70% we want 80%. When they score 80% we want 90%. When they score 90% our demand is 95%. We will be all the more happy if they can make it more than 100 ! Read "Five point someone" or "Three Idiots". It is not exaggeration to say that this "pushing" pushes the child to the verge of suicide. Statistics stand testimony.

When they score high we again pounce on them complining "no extra curricular activity". Fair enough if they fare well in this the next complaint comes "you are not sociable enough". And the game goes on and on.....

What we spoil in this game is the creativity of the child. We bask under the argument that we were also treated like this. Don't we want to change ? Don't we want our children to be CREATIVE ? When are we going to stop this "I am ok you are not" game ? Are we at fault or our education system ?

Let us think it over

Comments

Dr viswanathan said…

Pressure on students is heavy

29 July 2018 at 01:51

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