Periodi, Umashanker
(2011)
From nobody to somebody : journey with the parents’ body of a village primary school.
Learning Curve (16).
pp. 74-76.
Abstract
Brahmarakutlu Higher Primary school was a below
average school on all counts. The education
department had already termed it a ‘low achieving’
school. The parents of the villages Kallige and Thumbe were
aware of this situation since they had to face the insult of
the high school teachers when they dared to admit their
children in the nearby high schools. Usually it would be
mild like “we are full, we cannot take more people” or as
harsh as “we do not admit the children of Brahmarakutlu
school” or “we do not guarantee the passing of children from
Brahmarakutlu school”. This was the situation in 1983 when
I was asked to become a member of the school betterment
committee. I took this role very seriously and entered the
committee with a lot of enthusiasm. Looking back at those
initial days I feel that unlike some of the famous betterment
committees of our region, our committee was very mild. The
teachers would convene the meeting and ask for some help
and our President - a very powerful personality, would either
say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ and that was the end of it. All of us were
mere members nodding to whatever the President or Head
teacher said.
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