Our duties
Every child born in this country has the right to get education. If we are democratic, then we must see every human being equally, which also includes children. The state-run or private Bengali medium schools, located in Dhaka (or other cities) take tests to admit a child in Grade I, and make enormous amount of money selling forms. Is it not a duty of a school to teach children, which includes basic knowledge? To win in the battle among hundreds, parents send their children to coaching centres, which also costs them a lot of cash. If our society wants to be fair, why these innocent children have to sit in such exams where four among five will get eliminated. The children who didn't get an option to learn in better environment, get admitted to costly English mediums schools.
After getting admitted the shadow like problem doesn't leave them. Every day teachers give these children a bundle of homework. Those who do it perform better, but most of them get a label of being "average". Practice at home is needed, but to make things easier, we need to increase school hours, so that children can solve problems more in school than home.
"Failing" students must come to an end. These types of actions make a child believe that he doesn't have the ability to be competitive. What a student needs is help, and teachers need to be patient.
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