A ‘Dark Zone’ of School Education: A Reflection

Paik, Saswati A ‘Dark Zone’ of School Education: A Reflection. Practice Connect.

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Imagine a child in school washing plates after lunch without water. The child picking up a handful of sand to wipe off the oily remains from utensils and finishing it with just a touch of a wet towel! This is how bad the water shortage in the school is. Also, try to imagine that your child, while in school, is rushing to a nearby field to collect milk from domestic animals roaming there to prepare tea for teachers or any sudden visitor? The children do this because there is no single shop nearby, no electricity for the luxury of preserving milk in a refrigerator. If you have never seen this, you must visit public schools located in the semi-arid fringe area of the Thar desert in Rajasthan. In Sheo block, located around 50 km from Barmer city, which was the biggest block in Barmer district till the recent past, public elementary schools run within numerous constraints. Such constraints are hardly recognised or publicised and are rarely addressed.

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Paik, Saswati

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