CHENNAI: To what extent would schools go to secure 100% results in the board examinations?
Some institutions provide extra coaching for students and others conduct a series of practice tests. There are schools that provide special classes for stragglers to get them up to speed.
But several schools — and this is no secret, even though they go out of their way to be discreet about the practice — make a list of students in Class 9 and Class 11 that they think could fail if allowed to take the board examinations the next year. The schools simply ask these students to leave immediately and join another school.
A majority of these schools ask students who perform poorly in Class 9 and Class 11 to choose between repeating the class or leaving and joining another school with a pass certificate.
A popular matriculation school in Adyar recently gave more than 10 students of Class 9 a choice: Repeat the class or leave with a 'pass certificate'. "Four of 14 students passed a retest but the others were given the option," a student of the class said. "It was sad to see some of my friends face such a tough situation."
The school principal, however, denied detaining the students or asking them to leave. "We never fail students. We hold a retest for the poor performers and allow them to continue, even if they've only scored 20%," he said.
Experts and academicians say more schools than ever before are now sending out poor performers a year before the board examinations, absolving themselves of their responsibility for the students as soon as they walk out of the school. School heads, like K Vasudevan, principal of Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School, said the institution detains Class 9 students who fail in important subjects like mathematics, physics and chemistry. "It becomes very difficult for them to perform in Class 10," he said.
According to education department rules, students cannot be detained till Class 8 or sent out while studying in Class 10 or Class 12, matriculation schools director R Pitchai said. However, Class 9 students don't have the privilege. It is close to impossible for parents to secure a Class 10 or Class 12 seat in a good private school, so the children end up in government or governmentaided schools.
Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Graduate Teachers' Association state vice-president K G Baskaran, who is a teacher at a government-aided school in Kancheepuram, says as many as 20 of the 50 Class 10 students in our school have been cast away by private schools. He said schools do not show any compunction about asking children to leave in Class 9 even if they were students of the school since Class 1.
"It would be better for schools to take action at an early stage and help poor performers improve or counsel parents and change schools well before the end of Class 9," Baskaran said.
Some institutions provide extra coaching for students and others conduct a series of practice tests. There are schools that provide special classes for stragglers to get them up to speed.
But several schools — and this is no secret, even though they go out of their way to be discreet about the practice — make a list of students in Class 9 and Class 11 that they think could fail if allowed to take the board examinations the next year. The schools simply ask these students to leave immediately and join another school.
A majority of these schools ask students who perform poorly in Class 9 and Class 11 to choose between repeating the class or leaving and joining another school with a pass certificate.
A popular matriculation school in Adyar recently gave more than 10 students of Class 9 a choice: Repeat the class or leave with a 'pass certificate'. "Four of 14 students passed a retest but the others were given the option," a student of the class said. "It was sad to see some of my friends face such a tough situation."
The school principal, however, denied detaining the students or asking them to leave. "We never fail students. We hold a retest for the poor performers and allow them to continue, even if they've only scored 20%," he said.
Experts and academicians say more schools than ever before are now sending out poor performers a year before the board examinations, absolving themselves of their responsibility for the students as soon as they walk out of the school. School heads, like K Vasudevan, principal of Prince Matriculation Higher Secondary School, said the institution detains Class 9 students who fail in important subjects like mathematics, physics and chemistry. "It becomes very difficult for them to perform in Class 10," he said.
According to education department rules, students cannot be detained till Class 8 or sent out while studying in Class 10 or Class 12, matriculation schools director R Pitchai said. However, Class 9 students don't have the privilege. It is close to impossible for parents to secure a Class 10 or Class 12 seat in a good private school, so the children end up in government or governmentaided schools.
Tamil Nadu High and Higher Secondary School Graduate Teachers' Association state vice-president K G Baskaran, who is a teacher at a government-aided school in Kancheepuram, says as many as 20 of the 50 Class 10 students in our school have been cast away by private schools. He said schools do not show any compunction about asking children to leave in Class 9 even if they were students of the school since Class 1.
"It would be better for schools to take action at an early stage and help poor performers improve or counsel parents and change schools well before the end of Class 9," Baskaran said.
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