[Research] posters

[Rishikesh .]

Thanks for following our conversation in spite of your busy schedule Jean & very good to hear from you … yes terrible news in terms of the learning status. Quite similar across all States we are working in.
I think the auto promotion should be discussed, but I’m wary of  ‘detention’ as the onus to learn gets pushed on to the children. Though many States amended RTE to suit their teacher lobbies & brought in detention at grade 5. But, we have to come with a solution as a complete no detention or auto promotion is also problematic in the current state. One approach we came up in the Karnataka Task Force is to keep it very flexible till March 2022 and use the 500 or so days till then to bring children to age appropriate levels. The curriculum & pedagogy will have to worked out in detail for that.
You can just use the ‘research@…’ that you have used - all of us CCed are in it (except Niranjan).
Will keep you posted in further discussions.
Warm regards,
rishi


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From: Jean Dreze <jaandaraz at riseup.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2021 6:50:08 AM
To: Guru <Guru at ITforChange.net>
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Subject: Re: [Research] posters


Dear Guru and friends,

I am still tied up with the field survey, but doing my best to keep up in the between with all the useful material you are circulating.

The survey findings are alarming (no surprise here). In Latehar district, in 5 SC/ST hamlets, we found that 75% of children were unable to read a single word. Meanwhile, the schools are falling apart.

I wonder what the "line" is on automatic promotion. Once again it seems to suit privileged children, who are more or less on track, but it is the kiss of educational death for other children. How can children who were enrolled in Class 1 last year, and have never been to school or learnt the alphabet, be in Class 2 now (Class 3 in a few months), where they are given English textbooks (in Jharkhand)? Is there not a case for a "bonus year" when all children are helped to recover instead of sorting the winners and losers yet again? Just curious - I am sure that you have discussed this.

I am not clear whether "research at educationemergency.net"<mailto:research at educationemergency.net> is a kind of collective address so I am CC-ing a few at random!

Best,

Jean

On 10-08-2021 11:05, Guru wrote:
Thanks Jean

We are in the process of translating posters to as many languages as possible as these can help in sharp and quick communication. We will share these with you as well.

regards
Guru


On 10/08/21 7:03 am, Jean Dreze wrote:

Dear Guru: Thanks for this and other mails. I am up to my ears right now with the field survey (until 22 August), but I will catch up as soon as possible. We will definitely help with media for one thing.

More asap,

Jean

On 06-08-2021 15:41, Guru wrote:

Dear Jean

I am attaching the posters that  my colleague made in our Karnataka
'Open Schools' campaign

The campaign included a street protest, media articles, few press
releases which were reported in local papers. It may have helped a bit -
the Karnataka Govt kept high schools open Jan-March 2021.
Through the State SMC Federation, Niranjan and others also organized
district level protest meetings on school opening. A PIL was also put up
in Karnataka High Court  on both opening schools and providing mid day
meals. The CJ was sympathetic but  did not give a firm directive to open
schools. (there is a general middle class fear psychosis)

For this time, apart from posters, street protests, short videos
(children, parents, teachers) in multiple languages, social media
campaigns, apart from policy briefs, guidelines/toolkits for school
opening will be required. And the idea of the national coalition is to
share resources/ideas across groups working in different geographies.

regards,
Guru

https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/bengaluru/2021/mar/19/midday-meals-as-crucial-as-classes-survey-2278502.html
https://itforchange.net/press-release-open-all-schools-and-all-classes-local-hygiene-precautions
https://itforchange.net/press-release-open-all-primary-schools-now-to-avoid-a-learning-crisis





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