This is a retrograde step in education policy that destroys the very base of education, and will destroy the ability of children to learn. A child’s very ability to recognise it’s capabilities in learning will be taken away as there is no motivation to study and learn. Similarly the child’s competitive ability to do better (healthy competition) than the others is lacking. A child will fail to learn to counteract and to accept small failures as a part of life and recognise them as a motivation to do better the next time. Parents will be more stressed as children will be throughout watching the idiot box or be out playing. They will be like government servants getting salaries immaterial of whether they work or not.
More problems will await children and parents when the child reaches standard VIII and at the age of about 12 years. There will be many among the failures who will discontinue studies, as they cannot cope with failures. Many may resort to suicides as they have watched on the idiot box. Some of the schools may pass undeserving students as they may have less numbers in the IX standard. The government should realise not to play politics with education. Children should do learn and should learn from young. And by young it means from the cradle. A child becomes demanding when parents respond to every demand of theirs. A condition reflex learnt by them with cries from their cradle. If parents knew to recognise and not respond to false cries, the child would not throw tantrums later in life. This just goes to confirm that children start learning very early, and the earlier they learn, pleasant or unpleasant incidents, the better a child can cope up with it. Dr. Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão.