She has pointed problems in teaching and parenting both.
Teaching :
1.There r many teachers who r in the field to earn a living not because they enjoy teaching for them their job is to finish the course whether children understand the basic concept or not they don’t care.
2.There are more than 45-50 students in a class which makes it impossible to take care of each and every child’s academics.
3.Many teachers themselves don’t know the basics of the subjects they r teaching
4.Tendency of management/govt. to make teachers do non academic work also. Many times a teacher is asked to teach many subjects like maths, English, moral science in classes ranging from 5 to 10 irrespective of his/her field of specialization.
5.Large no of untrained teachers who r not familiar with psychological learning and teaching principles and techniques, child development.
6.Frustration and burnout are common.
7.Combine all this with the tendency to blame teachers for every failure, misbehaving and arrogant parents and their wards, non sympathetic management pressure of media (remember the case when a college teacher was forced to say sorry to a student for allegedly slapping her) .The job stress multiplies many fold.
Parenting :
My sister really dreads the day she has to give results and at the time of admissions. She says that the parental pressure is unbelievable. Many parents r simply blind to reasons refuse to even think that their decisions may create problems for their child in later life.
1 Parents feel their responsibility ends when they enroll their child in a good school and coaching classes.
2. They don’t discuss with child his interest and his ability to cope with a particular subject (maths for eg ) even if the child refuses to take up a particular subject parents force him/her to take that subject Sometimes just to fulfill their unfulfilled desire to study that subject.
3. Many fathers don’t turn up in even a single parent teacher meeting they come on the day of final results. They r not aware of year long progress, and strengths and weakness of the child and simply fight, blame the teachers.
4 Even if parents come regularly they expect that with the help of 2-3 tutions their weak child will give good results.
5. My sister says many parents don’t understand that the child has to pass the internals also even though they are told in advance.
6 Many people don’t provide proper study environment at home believing that studious student can study in any environment.
7 Parents keep on blaming child about his failure and don’t care to know the reason of failure.
