Parents' Forum for Meaningful Education

It was a cold, rainy, gloomy saturday morning, it must have been very difficult for the laughing trees to rise and shine! Yet, a gathering of fifteen, inclusive of faculty members and students was very interactive and enlightening! Dr. Manjari Gopal and Mr. Rajeev Chhabra from the
Parents’ Forum, shared special instances when parents' intervention helped change some routine oversights in the goings-on at Delhi schools.
There were incessant ideas about what happens to child's rights, citizen rights, citizen concerns etc. inside the classroom- About some schools where the " blackboard remains black" throughout the year with no teacher teaching, yet, pressurizing the child to take tuitions to be able to clear exams and then to be able to find a "respectable" job and hence a respectable position in the civilized society; -About parents of the privileged class becoming the "volunteer -guardians" of the underprivileged children as those parents have no voice in the power structure of the education system; about PTAs being collaborative rather than confrontation-ist in their profile;-about parents' orientation by the school community about child's right;-About Mother Teacher Association Movement in Kerala(http://macroscan.org/anl/jun03/pdf/Education_Kerala_Paper.pdf) ;-And also about a child's right to speak at home being reflected in his/her right to speak at school!
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The Session on "University Networks" is so much awaited that we wonder if we could start at 1:30 instead of 2:00 on wednesday,14th february!
Do join us with a smile!
The laughing tree