"No- Detention Policy"

नमस्ते..!! Today I'm going to talk about an important topic on which the future of our country depends. This policy is known as " No- Detention Policy" that means no student can fail until the 8th standard of schooling. 

History:- This policy was introduced in the year 2009 under the Right to Education act. This was told that every child upto the age of 14 should have access to educational rights under the Right to Education.

Hence this was decided that the system of Pass/Fail will be discontinued till the 8th class and the concept of CCE (Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation) was introduced. Here an all round evaluation of a child is done throughout the year, so the pressure of failing the exam is reduced. This policy was inspired by the developed countries and the purpose of this policy was to reduce the stress of exams from the students and also to reduce the dropout rates due to failure thereby providing education to the maximum students. The reason behind this is that if a child since standard 1st to 8th is thinking about pass/fail then he is influenced towards rote learning because cracking an exam somewhere leads to rote learning whereas when a student's focus is not on exams he tends to develop reasoning abilities and understanding concepts is his major focus. 

According to 2010, UNESCO data, every additional year of schooling increases an individual's earning by 10% and brings a change of 0.37% on the annual GDP of the country. (Source-  uis.unesco.org)
But now the last amendment to Right to Education Act permits schools to detain children in Class 5 and Class 8 if they fail an annual exam.

Bottom lines :-The reversal of the no-detention policy is an admission of failure by the Modi government. It is an admission that the government does not have the tools to understand the root causes of the crisis in school education. It follows from this that the government actually has no solutions.

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