When Manish Sisodia announced about parent-teachers meeting, no doubt you believed the AAP Government is making some revolutionary changes in the education grind of Delhi. Focusing on student performances, that too in government schools does seem like a dream come true. But Ajay Maken, Congress leaders differs on this and writes about the same in The Indian Express.
Ajay Maken along with Ruchi Gupta question AAP’s performance in The Indian Express , saying that as per AAP’s strategy in Delhi, educational development comes in four sects- infrastructure, administrative reforms, curriculum and teachers. While setting up schools and classrooms is a much needed and applauseworthy move, the rest do need to be scrutinised.
Maken says that, one big pothole in the reforms brought by AAP can be ‘Chunauti 2016’, which indeed is a chunauti for improvisation; the idea to segregate students on basis of their ‘learning skills’. Schools, where kids are expected to be taught and nurtured, AAP plans to first divide them into their strata. So, the good kids have it in them, they get into ‘Pratibha’, while for the failed ones, ‘Vishwaas’ is there. The Congress leaders questions this move and says, that the intention might be noble but can this discrimination be explained and justified to young minds in any manner?
Not just students, teachers also are part of the reforms. ‘Jeevan Vidya’, the training session for teachers focuses on the combination of psychology and metaphysics. The Delhi govt promised to omit them from administrative duties. And soon enough they were placed in election related work in Delhi municipal by-elections.
Critiquing the vacancy in the education sector, Maken writes that while there are as many as 12000 teacher positions vacant as per Shailendra Sharma, but no announcements have yet been made. New jobs are being created, with the govt’s association with many private biggies, transparency on the salaries, funds is not brought out.
To state in the minimal, Arvind Kejriwal’s battalion is aiming for the big reform without much pondering on the execution. With the aim of nailing the Punjab, Gujarat and Goa polls, AAP needs to move above full page educational advertisements and vacuum the pipeline.