Students promoted without exams can prove fatal
Vijay Garg
The Corona Second Movement is in full swing right now. A very scary situation remains. The movement has now taken a terrible turn.
These are the same days again this year. Governments have promoted tenth graders without even asking them to sit for exams. XII class exams didn’t even seem to happen. The Punjab Board of Education has also sought the results of pre-board examinations from educational institutions.
Given the circumstances, it is felt that the results of Plus Two students will be deducted on their basis, meaning that the students may not sit for their final examinations. Many students and parents will be happy again for their own reasons.
But one wonders what will happen to the future of these promoted students first studying online and what would this situation lead us to as the students who found it difficult to secure a place in the classes would now be promoted to next classes.
Parents, teachers and even students feel that students do not understand much through the online mode of education. Where parents are illiterate or students are not serious about their studies, children are often not even online. There are always excuses. Be it availability of networks or even the smart phones or laptops which have become the medium to get education.
Subjects cannot be judged online. In rural or backward areas where mobile network is not well developed and people are not comfortable with technology, how much education is being imparted to children through online mode? How effective it will be, we can guess.
Let’s face it, online learning doesn’t replace classroom teaching in any way. In such a scenario, promoting students without exams may seem right given the circumstances but what will be their future, will be a big challenge in the future.
Tomorrow when these students will be sitting in front of a panel for a job interview, they will look at their profile and remember that he was promoted, then it will definitely affect their decision making. More and more of them will not have self-confidence even if they have degrees. Because they have no knowledge of their subject. The results of the now announced X class have found that most of the students have got 100 per cent marks and that too in almost all the subjects. How it all happened, we can all guess.
Today, perhaps no one is thinking about it or say that the situation has become such that there is no other option. It is also true that if there is life then there is the world. But in the future it will emerge as a new challenge.
Just as time cannot be turned back, so the learning phase of the students cannot be turned back. The students should also do their studies with utmost sincerity while understanding their responsibilities in this hour of second wave of epidemic.
They should not think that they have given up their studies but should take the challenges ahead very seriously. They should pursue their studies seriously and with interest. After studying online for over a year, they should still understand how difficult this period is for their parents. How difficult it is for many to give their children smart phones for their education. The slightest negligence on their part can shatter all the dreams of their parents.
(The author is a Retired Principal Government Girls Senior Secondary School Mandi Harji Ram Malout Punjab)
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