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The writer wonders as to why parents today obsess over marks and how marks do not matter so much in the journey called life.
What are we actually teaching our kids? What do we aspire them to be? What is the real life implementation of the studies in schools? Are we really growing an intelligent generation or are we just focusing on creating a race which is just too good at doing what they are told to do and no more?
All these questions and many more clog my mind when I see the all time rising percentiles and percentages and still the kids and their parents fretting about just 1 more extra mark over the 95% or so already scored. What does that 1 extra mark denotes or tells us about our kid more than we already know or more than they already are? Will it genuinely render the kid more suitable to life after this whole STUDY shebang is over and they are faced with the real hardships of life?
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t intend to say that one should not try to excel themselves and desire to achieve more but, the real issue here is whether the kids genuinely want this or they are just doing it under the ever going peer pressure.
In my opinion, what our education system and the yesteryears of the kids should enable them to do is to know their inner strengths and weaknesses. They should be able to know what activities or subjects in studies interests them, not just on the basis of the marks achieved, but on the basis of their actual interest in the subject. What our kids really need is to excel in life, be better people, to be able to confidently lead their lives and be able to face life when it comes knocking at their doors.
All of this can only happen, if and only if we allow them to live life now, experiment with their lives, make mistakes and learn from them, fall and then get up again.
As parents, guardians and teachers all we can and must do is, to be there when they fall to help them rise up again.
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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