NEW DELHI: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday Composed to Union Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank, urging him to Rethink the decision Concerning holding the CBSE Class XII board Examinations Because of This Covid pandemic.
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) is to have a last call on running the Class XII board examinations.
The Centre is expected to have a last decision on the issue shortly.
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Priyanka Gandhi explained the three-page correspondence was composed after accepting comments from the parents and students on the dilemma of holding the Class XII board examinations.
“I urge you to rethink holding the CBSE 12th board assessments and also to look at the proposals made by these (parents and students ) really, very badly.
It’ll be a excellent injustice if they’re pushed into situations that threaten their lives if it’s totally unnecessary and it’ll be an excellent shame if we allow them down in this stressful time in their lifetimes,” the Congress chief composed.
“These kids are the future production of Indians.
They’ve coped with immense stress in the past year of the schooling.
For a lot of the year, their colleges stayed closed, regular interactions with buddies that kids flourish on have been nearly absent.
Many contracted Covid-19 themselves and several have lost people they love, family and friends within this season of tragedy and chaos,” she added.
Assuming the next wave of this pandemic was even more catastrophic and devastating than the initial person, Priyanka Gandhi stated,”The unthinkable pain we’ve endured together as a country in the past couple of months will likely be sprinkled on the collective and individual psyches of our kids for the remainder of their lives.
“How do we expect to put aside everything they’re watching and concentrate in their board examinations? How do we, as the guardians of the potential, refuse to listen to their shouts of aid and turn from their orders to be noticed? In actuality, how do we willingly place them in a circumstance that’s potentially dangerous and life threatening to them?”
The Congress leader said that no lesson was learnt from incidents such as the panchayat elections in Uttar Pradesh, in which the state authorities had promised all Covid guidelines could be set in place simply to subject the educators and election officials into cramped areas in which all of caution was thrown into the end.
“More than 1,600 teachers lost their own lives for the exact same reason we are currently imposing on pupils of this 12th standard — since they had been given no option except to appear at a situation that endangered their own lives,” Priyanka Gandhi wrote in the correspondence.
She compiled the suggestions produced by the educators, pupils and parents, which pointed out like in different nations, internal evaluation must be the cornerstone of grading a student amid the stunt.
Meanwhile, the Congress leader said the very real fear and mental trauma of this raging outbreak, coupled with protracted and extreme pressure of board tests, may cause serious mental health problems such as depression, anxiety and PTSD.
