India Today: New Delhi: Sunday, August 13, 2017.
The bill
proposes an enabling provision which will allow states to detain students in
Class 5 and Class 8 if they fail in the year-end exam.
With mixed
reactions over the no-detention policy, a bill to scrap the policy in schools
till Class 8 under the Right to Education (RTE) Act was introduced in Lok Sabha
on Friday.
What is
the no-detention policy?
- The no-detention policy, which comes under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, students were automatically promoted from class 1 to 8. In short, no student was failed during these many classes
- The idea behind the policy was to stop kids from failing and to free them from the exam pressure
In the Lok
Sabha, Minister of State, Human Resources Development (HRD), Upendra Kushwaha
presented the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Amendment)
Bill, 2017.
As per
reports, the bill was cleared by the cabinet on August 3
Here's
what the bill states:
- The bill proposes an enabling provision which will allow states to detain students in Class 5 and Class 8 if they fail in the year-end exam
- Further, the students will be given a second chance before they are detained
Right now, students are automatically promoted till class 8.
Reasons
behind this proposal:
As reported
by PTI, the proposal has been done to empower appropriate governments to take a
decision as to whether to hold back a child in the fifth class or in eight
class or in both classes, or not hold back a child in any class, till the
completion of elementary education, the statement of object of the bill states.
Meanwhile,
the statement of object of the bill states that in order to improve learning
outcomes in the elementary classes, and after wide deliberations with all the
stake holders, it is proposed to substitute section 16 that deals with
prohibition of holding back and expulsion of students.
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