AJIT KUMAR's Blog – March 2015 Archive (1)

The ‘no detention policy', under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, is one clause that a majority of the teachers resent. It states that until class VIII, no child can be held back or expelled from school. It is common to hear teachers complain that students have developed a lackadaisical attitude — ‘why study when there is no fear of failing?' There is no differentiation between intelligent, average and poor students, say teachers. Private schools were directed, well in advance,…