Education today is felt as a burden. I always used to wonder whether our education system is designed to equip the children to face the challenges of life or make them future Hamalis for sure. I struggled to lift the baggage of my younger son studying second class. Added to the luggage he has skate boards as additional passenger luggage apart from his food baggage. May be in future, we may have to hire different class of transportation, one for carrying the children other for carrying their baggage. Seperate logistics team working out at the school for making the luggage err..baggage to the right child.
Recently I saw a newspaper report that Kendriya vidyalayas have set weight limits on school baggage. As per the load-shedding policy for classes I and II the baggage should not weigh more than 2 kgs. For classes III and IV the weight is restricted to 3 kgs. For those studying from V to VIII the weight should not exceed 4kgs. The upper limit for IX and X has been set at 6Kgs. The circular further states that they will gradually move to a restriction of 1 Kg weight maximum a child can carry. Nice that atleast Kendriya vidyalayas have taken a serious approach. Our Honourable Minister for HRD Mr.Kapil sibal should also address this for all schools in the country.
Why doesn't schools have a good storage system in their class room itself wherein they keep each child's books in a safe locker?
One more interesting article today I read in Newspaper is that government is seriously thinking on including sports as 7th subject for all classes and it will be implemented in Government schools initially. Wonderful thought and it is highly required for present day generation.
To sum up, I can visualize that soon there will be days where children will shun their traditional books and carry note books(Laptops) to schools. When corporates are working on paperless offices why not paperless school bags for children?
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