Are government schools failing to provide proper education, with children only attending for mid-day meals and other freebies? While these incentives attract children to school, is it ultimately insufficient without good teachers and a quality education to help children understand things better.
kavita kumariBegginer
Quality of education
For a child….
Quality education is essential for a child’s development, but incentives like mid-day meals, allowances, and uniforms play a crucial role in ensuring attendance, especially in underprivileged communities. Government schools often struggle with providing adequate education due to factors such as underfunding, large class sizes, and a shortage of qualified teachers. These shortcomings can result in children attending school primarily for the incentives rather than for learning.
While these freebies are necessary to address immediate needs and encourage school attendance, they are insufficient without a robust educational framework. Quality education requires trained teachers, engaging curricula, and supportive learning environments. Investments in teacher training, infrastructure, and educational resources are vital to enhance learning outcomes.
Combining incentives with efforts to improve the quality of education can create a more effective system. Mid-day meals and other benefits should not be viewed as ends in themselves but as means to support and enhance the educational experience. Ultimately, the goal should be to create an environment where children attend school not just for the incentives but because they are gaining meaningful knowledge and skills that will benefit them in the long run.
For a child’s holistic development, both quality of education and basic support mechanisms like mid-day meals, allowances, and uniforms play crucial roles. Here’s a breakdown:
Quality of Education
Freebies and Support Mechanisms
Integrated Approach
Combining quality education with support mechanisms ensures that children not only learn effectively but also have the necessary conditions to do so. Proper nutrition, financial support, and a sense of equality enhance their ability to benefit from a good education. Thus, an integrated approach that includes both high-quality education and essential support mechanisms is ideal for a child’s overall development and well-being.
I think almost anyone will easily say it’s quality education. Those freebies are there to inspire the students to keep on coming back to schools.
But, what is quality education?
Is it the education that private school students get? Because I’d disagree that they are getting quality education either. Obviously, from an academic and marks perspective, yes but from a social and emotional perspective, no. Even from a mental perspective, no. Students aren’t taught basic skills such as critical thinking, analyzing, etc. It follows a ‘dictatorship’ model whereby the teacher is the dictator, and students are its followers. What this does is, induce fear into their growing brains. A fear-based teaching model is never okay, it only yields to temporary results as well as scars the child’s brain. Now, the ‘quality education’ has made this adult depressed, as well as fearful or even worse, he has become as scary as his teachers.
I’m not blaming the teachers; I know how hard it is to handle students while maintaining your cool. I’m blaming the system at large whereby our students’ emotional and mental health is neglected. If the teachers were given proper training instead of simply hiring those who have a better knowledge of their subject, then it would’ve been better and that is what I’d call ‘quality education’.
As for the government schools, I think it is hard to maintain proper infrastructure, pay for their teachers’ salary, training as well as give freebies. Hence, for now the freebies way is pertaining. But is it better?
If freebies are given:
If quality education is given and negligible freebies:
It seems obvious that why second option is better or why quality education is better.
But if an organization or school has lesser students, their business won’t generate as much profit. This at the end is the answer to almost every problem, how money keeps us stuck, almost every organization must generate more profit to prosper or else they won’t work out.
I wish there was a straight cut answer to your question, but it never is. It usually leads us to dilemmas..