Students will be asked to make the school their home for three months preceding the exams to ensure that BMC students score better.
MUMBAI: The BMC has hit upon a new idea to improve Secondary School Certificate examination results in its schools.
Students will be asked to make the school their home for three months preceding the exams. This, officials feel, will ensure that BMC students score better.
“This way students will enjoy an environment conducive to learning, which is necessary while preparing for the board examination,” a senior official of the BMC education department said, on condition of anonymity. “Students may even secure a place in the merit list.”
To implement the proposal, the BMC has sought the support of NGOs to provide the necessary facilities, serve lunch and dinner, organise lectures on concentration, and maintain physical and psychological fitness.
“Even teachers are ready to work extra hours to improve the students’ performance,” the official said. “The concept of staying overnight will be acceptable among students and parents as several students studying in BMC schools follow the policy of ‘earn and learn’ and attend night schools.”
But the proposal is facing some opposition in the BMC’s education committee, a body comprising corporators. The committee believes that while the academic environment may improve students’ performance, parents may not accept the idea of their wards living away from them.
Committee chairman Mangesh Satamkar said: “The concept may become successful in government-run schools in rural areas, which are far away from students’ homes. But it will be totally unacceptable in the city, where students live close to their schools.”
The committee has decided that parents’ permission must be sought before implementing the proposal. “Infrastructure can be organised for such projects,” Satamkar said, “but the main problem is of taking responsibility for the students. If anything goes wrong in this period, the BMC will have to take the blame.”
Children’s rights activists have appreciated the proposal but believe it can only work with the willing participation of students. “Before implementing it, students’ willingness to stay back in school should be considered,” said Santosh Shinde, one such activist. “If they agree, the BMC can go ahead. It is important because most of these students do not get an exam-oriented environment at home.”
Shinde suggested that if the programme works well, it could be implemented from the primary stage itself.
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