CUDDALORE:
The reopening of the schools, after an extended summer vacation, created mixed feelings among students, parents and even the teachers on Wednesday.
For the tiny tots stepping into the schools for the first time, it is a nightmare, as they detest the thought of temporarily getting separated from the loving care of parents and the comfort of homes. At the kindergarten level, many students cried out their heart while others kept a morose face.
Only a rare few kept a cheerful countenance and felt proud of occupying the first benches. They were eager to display their new set of uniform, new pair of shoes and new acquisitions such as tie and bag. Some schools had decked up the classrooms with festoons and colourful sketches to greet the newcomers and yet these arrangements could not instil confidence among the children.
While some of the parents tended to hang around till the classes get over, others just went about their job and came to pick up their wards after the brief introductory session. In the high schools, the atmosphere was quite pleasant as the students could get to meet their friends or “bosom pals.” They were also elated to get promoted to higher classes. The teachers, of course, came prepared for the routine grind because they would be burdened with the responsibility of taking classes, correcting home work, conducting class tests and equipping the students for the public examinations.
But this time around the teaching community is perplexed over the syllabus and they are not sure whether the old syllabus should be followed or the new one under the uniform school education system should be taken up. The Education Department too remains noncommittal and yet it has issued instructions to the schools not to bother about the syllabus but carry on with general instructions and teach the students mathematics and grammar so as to keep them engaged.
The parents too are a confused lot because they are harangued on two aspects:
uncertainty over the fee structure and the syllabus. The schools that have opposed the recommendations of Justice Raviraja Pandian Committee on determination of fee structure have decided to seek legal remedy. Till a clear picture emerges, the parents have been asked to remit the fees as directed by the school managements to which the parents will have to concede grudgingly.
K.Marimuthu, a parent, said that at no point of time was school education at the cross roads as of now.
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