Real sad that Anita took her life out as she was not able to pass out the Neet exams. All media outlets, Politicians, Celebrities were up in arms against #NEET and blamed the respective governments ( State and Center ) in forcing it on the TN students.
As such the Standard of TN Schooling took a big beating when DMK brought in the "Samacheer Kalvi" well before that we in TN had CBSE, Anglo, Matric and the State Boards with CBSE being the best in the Syllabus and State Board being the Mediocre. The advent of Samacheer brought down the Quality of syllabus to such dismal level and equally the "Thought of Schooling" came to dismal low. Many Parents who fretted against this Samacheer Kalvi moved their wards to the CBSE and their simple answers were
- Syllabus was too Tamilnad Centric
- Languages used were literal translation with full of grammatical Errors
- Dilution of Subjects ( Quality of Syllabus Compromised)
- Insufficient for their wards to take on any competetive Exams post +2
OF all the Dilution of the subjects was the main cause of worry, there goes the basic education for a big toss. If DMK has to take the major blame equally the School which are run as a "Business" model needs to take their share. Like to share my Personal experience on the Schooling, When i did my +1 in early 80's the portions were completed in 14 months literally 3-4 months more than the prescribed schooling calendar. We had short holidays, Extended Session in the Annual holiday before +2 commenced. School focused more on the basics and nuances of each subject going beyond the boundaries of the Syllabus..It helped us to groom ourselves for the final exams and for any competitive exams that we may counter upon. I was in a for a shock when I switched my Daughter whom I put her in one of the best School (as claimed) for the Higher Secondary Schooling told me that the +1 portions were all completed in the 1st half year of Joining and hence forth it would be the +2 Portions that would be educated upon. There were many Parents like me who confronted the School Authority on the important of teaching the basics in details, alas nothing happened. Even before the Scheduled +1 year finished she had written 1 Model exams (By School) for the +2.
This isn't Just my Daughter there are Lakhs of Students who pass out Higher secondary with great marks but with no competency in them. When they walk out after the Degree the Complex they develop due to their Inferior knowledge, Inability to explain in details on any process for that matter even communication is a Daily scenario with many. There are many who don't even want to go for an Interview fearing for their own Inability.
Who's to be blamed? The Govt? Parents? Students who lack the aptitude to learn beyond the syllabus? Taking Anita's case she scored 1176/200 who had a cut off mark off 196.75 out of 200, brilliant as long as you look from the Prism of the quantum of mark which was secured by mugging through the Q&A of the select important questions (like everyone including my daughter) while her #NEET score 86/720 that's about 0.12% in a competitive exams. The difference in the scoring Pattern reveals all the Quality of Education and Learning.There are thousands of Anita out there leave, cutting across Caste, many from OC despite scoring humongous marks due to the Cut-OFF settle down for Ordinary Degree. But is the death the only way out for the agony and Pain that one go through.
The Brave-heart Anita who was the Petitioner against NEET (she was propped up by the Usual suspect) turned into cowardice overnight giving a platform to the Vultures who had a made a habit of doing Politics over the dead.
Hope Anita's death will not go in vain, time Students take this challenge and instead of being "Mug-Up" kind to improve their learning skills, Parents and teachers have a lot to make this happen, as long it dosent happen, not only ANITA, TN Education RIP.
