Rise And Shine Do Not Fail

Yesterday while I was rushing through my mails and other notifications on my phone I noticed that I was first added in a WhatsApp group and then removed from it, name of the Gp was THE PERFECT, curiosity took better of me and I started digging information about it when my friend poured her bit of information

This was about the moms of the genius kids who had got THE PERFECT 100% score on their respective platforms, now the euphoria had gripped the moms and they were kitty partying, This expulsion (from Gp)made me feel like I was caught with an egg on my face ,my kid had got poor 80%percent ,we were ostracised and had to eat the humble pie.

So now onwards there is another division in the society The poor ones who were not perfect, let’s shame them slam them, how could they not be perfect

Gone are the days of Failures are the pillars of success it’s “Perfection is the makers of success”.

Dear Reader, Now let us come out of the intended pun and feel the ground beneath us

Where are we pushing our next generation to

Why are we making our kids an insignia of our high social niche

And how on earth can anyone be perfect in his or her score you can score perfect marks in maths physics chemistry but then social sciences and literature it's an exception, there is always a scope of improvement. Even Shakespeare and William Wordsworth had their share of critics who wanted them to improve

The ground reality is this that more than 11000 students got 100 percent marks in literature and social science in CBSE board this year, so according to board examiners these students can’t further improve as they have reached the zenith. The only way for them now runs southward’s or they can try remaining at the zeniths of their lives which is again not possible as nobody is perfect in this world

A very few things come with 100% tag with them

Your boss will never give you 100 marks in your annual report

Your company cannot always show you 100%

There’s never a 100% discount sale

And you never get a perfect husband or a perfect wife

So everything and every one comes with some loopholes and gets a chance to improve and in the quest of that perfection we keep on improving and learning throughout our lives

Life stops when learning stops, a zest to learn, a spark to burn, should be there to make life fun

But our CBSE has marked these students as sacrosanct

We should rather be afraid than thrilled at seeing 499/500 score, these one less than perfect kids have calibrated their minds so meticulously that they forgot to make any real errors, what a robotic waste of childhood, we cannot even tell them to learn from their own mistakes

The MCQ system further makes the kids parasites on the coaching system they stop exploring, only cramming plays the key role.

The other thing I want to bring forth is that

These torchbearer of success are so much celebrated glorified and garlanded that we unknowingly put a huge heap of expectations on them under which they crumble and tumble

We forget that if there is a topper then there is an average student too who treats himself as a loser in wake of uncalled for the glorification of toppers

Let us try to see the other side of the picture too

Winding up I will quote an example of my school mate who was failed by the system and retained in the same class,

her burning desire to jump back pushed her to merit the very next year and today she is a leading doctor in the U.S

She never failed it was a system that failed.