‘Only 34% of 5th grade children in k’taka can read class 2 books’

Bengaluru: Pandemic has created chaos at the learning rate of children in the state, according to the annual status of the education report for Rural Karnataka, reported Sruthy Susan Ulla.
The report said the percentage of children in class 5 who could read class 2 textbooks was 46% in 2018.
In 2020, it fell to 34%.
The fall is steeper among children in government schools, where only 33% can read class 2 textbooks, a drop of 15%.
Among private schools, autumn 6% (from 42%).
Expert: Let the teacher assess, deciding what should be taught now is the worst since 2014, from when comparison has been carried out with an annual status of education report for Rural Karnataka (Aser).
The survey was conducted on March 202, when Aser found a small window to return to the village to meet children.
The data is considered for the school year 2020-21.
While 70% of children in grade 8 can read class 2 textbooks in 2018, down to 66% at 2020.
Only 10% in grade 3 can read class textbooks 2.
The highest level in the assessment of the reading of the Aser is a textbook level 2 And is a proxy to read class levels for class 3.
Only 17% of children in grade 3 can reduce reduction.
It was 26% in 2018 and 29% in 2016.
The number of children who can reduce in grade 5 is 44%, a drop of 11% of 2018.
Even worse, only 39% of children in 8th grade can do divisions.
Children in primary classes far from classrooms since March 2020.
Higher primary and high schools have a Vidyagama program in October in 2020.
Then, the class was held from January to March in 2021.
Education has warned of learning losses Severe among children closing school since the pandemic.
The Aser survey was held in 24 districts, including 18,385 children aged between 3 and 16 years.
“It is important to focus on the foundation attributes that have been lost for the last 18 months for 18 months.
When we open school, we cannot return to teach syllabus.
The curriculum must be reconfigured and the teacher must be given autonomy to assess and decide what they have to teach .
The Ministry of Education can not force the syllabus normal.
They need to do a lot of work to imagine how we would cope with the situation for two years to bring to normal.
Only then we will come out of the emergency education, “said Rishikesh BS, Faculty, University of Azim Premji.