My conspicuous experiments with life!!

Monday, July 12, 2004

The evil syndrome!
I recently got an oppurtunity of talking to a lady who had a child with 'downe'syndrome'. I have heard a lot about this everywhere but don't really know the meaning. I wanted her to explain how such children were different from others. until i talked to her I thought it was a kind of disorder in the child's health and that prevents the child in being in the company of others. actually as she started explaining I understood this was not all that a medical procedure but more of a society's perception. when a child is not able to cope up with the present educational system, he or she is termed to be suffering from "down syndrome" and they are educated in a special stream with no good content which would help them earn their living as they grow up! This is what I'd call crap! where does the mistake lie? It should either be in the 'educational system' where the syllabus is framed considering only the 'so-called-bright-students' in mind! Or in the teaching side where they are used to lethargic drilling of wotever is printed on a book. in either way, these children are no less! Not being studious and not being bookish is not a crime! and for that if a child has to be put aloof.....if the child has to be told time and then that he suffers from a disorder and they cannot get along with other children of their age...it is pathetic! and after all this is not a disorder! the disorder lies in people who cannot frame an educational system to suit all children and the disorder lies in people who cannot teach anything in an interesting and appealing way!
when my neighbour came and said her son was put in such a school, the comment from my granny was the best! (though the punch is lost, i'll put it in english)"Mothers today are jobless! When we were young, our mothers had too much work to notice all these! we went to school along with hundred others! Why create a sense of inferiority complex within the child? put him in an ordinary school, he'll slowly start picking up skills!" The apt thing to say, isn't it?

Posted by sree at 5:34:00 pm
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