The decision of the school education department to postpone the examinations may have a lasting impact on government school students, since the majority of them are already cut off from academic activities. Read full story
On Saturday, Education Minister of State, K A Sengottaiyan informed the state government's decision to postpone half-yearly exams for government school students. As the quarterly exams were also postponed in September, teachers say that it is unlikely that the exams will happen when the schools remain closed.
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This has affected higher education students who may not be ready to face an annual examination directly if the state government decides to do so. "The state government needs to come out with a clear plan on managing the examination of students especially when no es have been conducted for them right from the beginning of the academic year," said K Murthy, Tamil Nadu, of the right to education forum.
"There is no exam for students until class 8 and they can be trained once the schools are re-opened, but students from 9-12 will be on the receiving end as they do not have access to online es or do self-study at home. While we are afraid of Covid-19, schools need to re-open for higher es considering their future, through integrated efforts from the school education department to ensure that all of them are in place.
"In the absence of examination, students find no need to study at home with textbooks or even watch Kalvi Tholaikatchi," said the headmaster of the government school.
While schools are likely to be re-opened in January, many of the students do not turn up, say teachers. Students in higher secondary schools have begun to work and refuse to take books, even if they insist on phone calls from a teacher, a teacher said.
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