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Class Struggle: India's Experiment in Schooling Tests Rich and Poor
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By GEETA ANAND
NEW DELHIââ¬âInstead of playing cricket with the kids in the alleyway outside, 4-year-old Sumit Jha sweats in his family's one-room apartment. A power cut has stilled the overhead fan. In the stifling heat, he traces and retraces the image of a goat.
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In April, he enrolled in the nursery class of Shri Ram School, the most coveted private educational institution in India's capital. Its students include the grandchildren of India's most powerful figuresââ¬âPrime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party President Sonia Gandhi.
Sumit, on the other hand, lives in a slum.
His admission to Shri Ram is part of a grand Indian experiment to narrow the gulf between rich and poor that is widening as India's economy expands. The Right to Education Act, passed in 2009, mandates that private schools set aside 25% of admissions for low-income, underprivileged and disabled students. In Delhi, families earning less than 100,000 rupees (about $2,500 a year) qualify.
Shri Ram, a nontraditional school founded in 1988, would seem well-suited to the experiment. Rather than drill on rote learning, as many Indian schools do, Shri Ram encourages creativity by teaching through stories, songs and art. In a typical class, two teachers supervise 29 students; at public schools nearby, one teacher has more than 50. Three times a day, a gong sounds and teachers and students pause for a moment of contemplation. Above the entrance, a banner reads, "Peace."
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Honestly the these lower middle class Indian kids will benefit from DTEA and DAV and RSS Shishu mandir schools and others run by Hindu charities . RSS shishu mandir in Orissa wins half the toppers of the top 100 in state board
Shri Ram school is for the lazy rich who want to make connections early in life
Class Struggle: India's Experiment in Schooling Tests Rich and Poor
Article
Comments (116)
MORE IN INDIA û
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By GEETA ANAND
NEW DELHIââ¬âInstead of playing cricket with the kids in the alleyway outside, 4-year-old Sumit Jha sweats in his family's one-room apartment. A power cut has stilled the overhead fan. In the stifling heat, he traces and retraces the image of a goat.
Flawed Miracle
The Journal is examining the threats to, and limits of, India's economic ascent.
Doubts Gather Over Rising Giant's Course
India's Jobs Program Fails its Poor
Few India Graduates Are Fit to Hire
India's Boom Bypasses Rural Poor
India's Tata Finds Home Hostile
Photos: Crisis in Punjab
In April, he enrolled in the nursery class of Shri Ram School, the most coveted private educational institution in India's capital. Its students include the grandchildren of India's most powerful figuresââ¬âPrime Minister Manmohan Singh and Congress party President Sonia Gandhi.
Sumit, on the other hand, lives in a slum.
His admission to Shri Ram is part of a grand Indian experiment to narrow the gulf between rich and poor that is widening as India's economy expands. The Right to Education Act, passed in 2009, mandates that private schools set aside 25% of admissions for low-income, underprivileged and disabled students. In Delhi, families earning less than 100,000 rupees (about $2,500 a year) qualify.
Shri Ram, a nontraditional school founded in 1988, would seem well-suited to the experiment. Rather than drill on rote learning, as many Indian schools do, Shri Ram encourages creativity by teaching through stories, songs and art. In a typical class, two teachers supervise 29 students; at public schools nearby, one teacher has more than 50. Three times a day, a gong sounds and teachers and students pause for a moment of contemplation. Above the entrance, a banner reads, "Peace."
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Honestly the these lower middle class Indian kids will benefit from DTEA and DAV and RSS Shishu mandir schools and others run by Hindu charities . RSS shishu mandir in Orissa wins half the toppers of the top 100 in state board
Shri Ram school is for the lazy rich who want to make connections early in life