Sheesh... the schools these days

For crying out aloud...

The more I think of formal schooling for my little one ... the more jittery I get.
Just yesterday I got to hear this horror story about a Pre - School facility called Primrose. The place requires that the kids they admit in the pre-school learn to knead dough so that their wrists can become strong enough for the writing assignments they give.

Can you believe that? In pre-school what writing assignments do children have?

Also the other requirements of the pre-school include kids being able to identify alphabets, vegetables and colours... oh I forgot... they also require that the child understand and speak English!!! I wonder on what do they plan to teach?

Sheeeeeeesshhh... when I heard this, I kind of hit the roof! I mean... why should a two and a half year/ three year old know any of this? I feel so sorry for the children whose parents put them in that pre-school.

This just goes to show how ineffective we have been in putting an education infrastucture in place. The infrastructure I am talking about is not buildings and etc... as I am sure you understand.

The need of the hour is to put systems and checks in place to monitor the activities and curriculum of Pre-school/ Pre KG and KG . The focus of such institutions should be on children and their childhood. Any school/ schooling system that do not adhere to the set curriculum should be disbanded with immediate effect.

Actually what we need to evolve is effective child rights. I mean, just as all children have the right to education, toddlers should have the right to happy childhood with learning to socialise, playing and fun time being the order of the day, not the tedium of writing A B Cs and learning your colours and vegetables. Childhood certainly shouldn't be about learning to knead dough to strengthen wrists to write.

Anybody who advocates such thing should be put in prison for advocating/ promoting child labour!

Yes I know I sound indignant... but I am so thoroughly annoyed! I wish I could do something to close down the institution. But Primrose is just an example of all that is wrong about our educational system. A lot has been spoken about the system... but the question is who will bell the cat? Who will take the call and say enough is enough...
The politicians/ netas/ babus? nah... they couldn't be bothered.
The CSR aware industrialist? ... :) you are kidding right?
The teachers? ...
The parents? No. Most parents I meet wish/ think that their child(ren) are whiz kid(s) with IQ above 190!
The kids??? Poor little infants with no say on what their future should be about! So no go there either....

So who will take the call?