No Detention Policy
'No Detention Policy,' which means that no pupil can fail until the eighth grade. This
policy had been in place until now, when the government changed it. The researcher would
want to explain why this will make our educational system even worse. This policy was
implemented in 2009 under the Right to Education Act, which stated that every child up to
the age of 14 shall have access to educational rights under the Act. As a result, it was agreed
that the Pass/Fail system would be phased out until 8th grade, and the concept of CCE
(Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation) would be adopted, in which a child's overall
performance is assessed throughout the year, reducing the burden of grades.
This programme was inspired by industrialised countries, and its goal was to reduce
exam stress among students as well as dropout rates due to failure, allowing the maximum
number of students to receive an education.
Prior to the No Detention Policy, the passing percentage of CBSE schools was 89.44
percent in 2009, and in 2012, following three years of this policy, the passing percentage has
climbed to 98 percent.
As a result, children graduating in 2012 had two years of No Detention Policy
experience prior to their eighth grade, and the passing percentage increased after the No
Detention Policy. Furthermore, as a result of this policy, dropout rates in CBSE schools for
pupils in grades 1–5 fell from 9% in 2009 to 6.5 percent in 2012. So, these two facts suggest
that removing the pressure of a Pass/Fail grade improves kids' future performance and helps
them stay interested in school. The reason for this is that if a child is thinking about Pass/Fail
from first to eighth grade, he is affected towards rote learning because cracking an exam
someplace leads to rote learning, however when a student's concentration is not on tests, he is
driven towards rote learning.
Data also suggests that children who have failed at least once in school are more
likely to drop out. One of the top five reasons for student dropouts, according to the National
Family Health Survey of 2005, was "repeated failure," in which youngsters become
demotivated after failing repeatedly in the classroom and leave out. Such issues, which look
at caste-based data, are particularly useful in observing the development of all religions in the
country.
Gender, caste, and religion all have different rates of school dropouts. The greatest
dropout rates are among Muslims, followed by the schedule tribe at 16.55 percent, schedule
caste at 15.4 percent, and OBC at 12.7 percent, with the general category having the lowest
dropout rates at only 11 percent. Girls have the greatest school dropout rate (15.3%) when
compared to boys. The goal of these statistics is to show that if the NDP is phased out, castes,
religion, and gender will be severely impacted.
As a result, the disparity between classes and religions in our cultures will continue to
grow. Another significant cause is that society has reached a breaking point in terms of exam
stress. Exam stress has been depicted in films such as Three Idiots, in which a student
commits suicide. According to statistics, one child in our country commits suicide every
hour. In our country, there are various exam-related cases that no one has ever imagined, for
example, Four school girls perished after falling against a wall after failing a monthly exam
when a 12th grade student at Ryan School lilled a 7-year-old youngster to postpone his
exams.
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