Unfortunately the mainstream education has not taken on responsibility for
inclusive education.
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Subject: [AI] Aabha Raveendran reports from KOZHIKODE for TheHindu: Inclusive
education yet to be a reality
s. But school education in the State is hardly inclusive despite the best
efforts by the Government and the Samagra Shiksha Kerala (SSK), according to
parents of a few differently abled children who have been left out of the
system.
https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/inclusive-education-yet-to-be-a-reality/article30563824.ece
Shahul Madavoor, State chairman of the Society for Rehabilitation of
Differently Abled (SRDA), is the latest complainant. Earlier this month, he had
alleged that his child, who was intellectually challenged, did not get the
required attention at school, as the institution did not have the services of a
resource teacher, a teacher trained in special education deployed at schools by
the SSK.
Mr. Madavoor pointed out that his son was the only special needs student at the
school. As the SSK has a policy of deploying teachers to only those schools
that have at least five children with special needs, the services of the
resource teacher were withdrawn from this particular school.
“No other teacher cared if my child attended school or not,” he lamented.
Similar incident
It was only a few months ago that The Hindu reported a similar incident at West
Hill in the city. Ironically, the parent in that case was reluctant to complain
for fear of teachers at the school turning against her child. “Resource
teachers are not supposed to teach special children but guide other teachers to
help them. But the idea is yet to be ingrained in the brains of teachers here,”
Mr. Madavoor said. The SSK, however, has blamed it on the scarcity of resource
teachers. “We are facing a severe scarcity of teachers trained to attend to
special children. Hence, we have been able to deploy only one teacher for two
schools,” SSK district coordinator Abdul Hakeem said.
However, he complained that the other teachers were yet to accept that they
were responsible for the special children too. “They often wash their hands off
special children and are focused on teaching healthy children, while it is
special children who really need their help,”
Mr. Hakeem said.
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अविनाश शाही/ Avinash Shahi
सहायक/ Assistant
मानव संसाधन प्रबंध विभाग/ Human Resource Management Department भारतीय रिजर्व
बैंक/ Reserve Bank of India लखनऊ क्षेत्रीय कार्यालय/Lucknow RO विस्तार/
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