I feel exam is a very important part in school life. It actually tests how much we have understood what has been taught to us. It is a good parameter by which parents can also understand where their child stands in the class. It also helps the child to understand the self.
Without an examination system, how do we measure the progress of the child? How do we know whether the child has assimilated what has been taught. Though there are some points like the stress factor that is being attached to the exam and the too much of importance the marks has been give, but it is not a thing which needs to be altogether removed and abolished.
The decision makers need to think twice before they abolish a system which has been practiced for so many years and it is not without a valid reason that such systems where set up and practiced generations after generations. Now we question the policies setup by elders. We can sure remove anything bad and anything which is a extra unwanted weight from the system and trip it as per the current requirements.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Friday, February 12, 2010
First Picnic
My daughter wanted to go to the picnic trip arranged in her school. It meant she had to be out of house from morning 8 to evening 4.PM and be on her own. She had to travel alone in her school bus. Not alone exactly, but I have never seen my daughter do that. I drop her at school, pick her up. So this picnic thing came as a big thing which I had to handle.
I for myself have never gone for a picnic when I was in standard 1. My parents never allowed me and I didnt question their authority.
When my daughter asked me for permission, it was not a permission, she gave me a piece of paper and asked me to sign it and return back so that she could give it in school. It was a consent letter to let her participate in picnic. I told her she was not allowed to go. Immediately, she pondered me with a thousand questions. She asked the reason for not allowing. She was firm she wanted to go and did not eat for the next 2 days.
Somehow she took my consent and the D day also came. She was all excited. She never slept the night and was waking me up in midnight. Next day morning she woke me up at 4.00 AM. I told her to sleep and got up as usual.
Prepared Maggi Noddles with lot of veggies. Then packed her bag with all jung food- Chips, Kurkure, Wafers, Juice and then Maggi Noodles. Water of course. Then she wanted a blanket to sit down. All set and ready to go. But I was totally tensed and the whole thing looked like a nightmare to me. I had hundred fears, whether she will stand up while the bus is going, whether whe will put her hands out of the bus, if she will get herself locked in the zoo's toilet, if she would miss her teacher and friends, if she will forget the house address, phone number etc etc..
I left her in the school, gave her all the instructions and she was bundle of joy and was cool and composed. I came to office after dropping her at school. But my mind was with her. What she will be doing now, what she will be doing now, what she will be doing now.
I was not able to concentrate on anything, till my father called me back at 4.00 and told that he has picked my daughter up from school.. What a feeling it was. I was totally relieved and spoke with her.. She went on and on in the phone about the white tiger, the monkey, the veg briyani her friend gave her, the shells she had collected from the sand, the pink flower which she got for her sister etc. I enjoyed the way she told everything and felt happy that I had given her this joy and learnt a new lesson that " KIDS can of course do things on their own"
I for myself have never gone for a picnic when I was in standard 1. My parents never allowed me and I didnt question their authority.
When my daughter asked me for permission, it was not a permission, she gave me a piece of paper and asked me to sign it and return back so that she could give it in school. It was a consent letter to let her participate in picnic. I told her she was not allowed to go. Immediately, she pondered me with a thousand questions. She asked the reason for not allowing. She was firm she wanted to go and did not eat for the next 2 days.
Somehow she took my consent and the D day also came. She was all excited. She never slept the night and was waking me up in midnight. Next day morning she woke me up at 4.00 AM. I told her to sleep and got up as usual.
Prepared Maggi Noddles with lot of veggies. Then packed her bag with all jung food- Chips, Kurkure, Wafers, Juice and then Maggi Noodles. Water of course. Then she wanted a blanket to sit down. All set and ready to go. But I was totally tensed and the whole thing looked like a nightmare to me. I had hundred fears, whether she will stand up while the bus is going, whether whe will put her hands out of the bus, if she will get herself locked in the zoo's toilet, if she would miss her teacher and friends, if she will forget the house address, phone number etc etc..
I left her in the school, gave her all the instructions and she was bundle of joy and was cool and composed. I came to office after dropping her at school. But my mind was with her. What she will be doing now, what she will be doing now, what she will be doing now.
I was not able to concentrate on anything, till my father called me back at 4.00 and told that he has picked my daughter up from school.. What a feeling it was. I was totally relieved and spoke with her.. She went on and on in the phone about the white tiger, the monkey, the veg briyani her friend gave her, the shells she had collected from the sand, the pink flower which she got for her sister etc. I enjoyed the way she told everything and felt happy that I had given her this joy and learnt a new lesson that " KIDS can of course do things on their own"
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