'No detention’ policy: Students can fail Classes 5, 8 as Lok Sabha passes bill
Students can fail Classes 5, 8 as Lok Sabha passes bill The Lok Sabha passed the amendment that will now enabling states to allow schools to fail the child if he/she fails in either or both classes and withhold their promotion to the next standard. Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar moved the ‘The Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education (Second Amendment) Bill, 2017’, that calls for regular examination in classes 5 and 8. The Act however stipulated that no child admitted in a school shall be held back in any class or expelled from school until the elementary education is completed. Moving the Bill, Javadekar said that the amendment was necessary to improve the “learning outcomes”. The ‘no detention’ policy was made by many states and Union Territories in recent years which observed students scoring “poor marks”. -PTC News
