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The 10+2 Natak!
Let us congratulate the once so-lazy National Examination Board (NEB) for finally waking up on the right side of the bed in this Balen era to grace us with the Class 12 results on time, well, even before their own deadline. It took us almost three decades to finally realize that our sarkari karmacharis can do the work on time if they want to, or have to, or are forced to be productive instead of looking for passive income on the side.
According to the results, almost 70% of our high school students have passed their exams. Roughly half a million sit for the SEE (the 10th grade Iron Gate) exams, and 50% fail. Out of the quarter million students in Class 12, 70% pass. So we are left with maybe a hundred thousand or so students, calling them 10+2 graduates every year.
And according to my data, 80% of them somehow find a way to go abroad for further studies, taking more than US$ 1 billion a year of their parents' hard-earned money or meter-byaz loans to foreign universities.
I think it's time we scrap the SEE obsession. During the 90s, it was called the School Leaving Certificate (SLC), as if you passed the 10th grade and it was over, and you could do your thing for the rest of your life. Even now, kids are under pressure to do well for the SEE, but your grades only matter when you pass the 10+2 exams because the universities here or abroad really don't care if you were the class topper in the tenth grade.
Let us save the pressure on our kids and save some of our government's money by just making sure we focus on the 10+2 thing rather than testing our kids every few years on a national scale and wasting our taxpayers' money while making our private schools richer by forcing our parents to cough off extra money and extra hours for the kids for two years even fore they show up the for the SEE!
Well, we are not talking about the SEE today. Let us not force our 15-year-olds to two years of intense academic pressure. I think we should adopt the 'Amriki' model of high school, where education doesn't feel like a permanent state of emergency.
We need to give space to our kids to exist and find their own personalities instead of focusing on their ability to memorize tons of stuff and write it down like a zombie! If some of our kids are not into academics that much, then we can follow the 'German' model for them. Let us give space to the kids who can do well in plumbing, carpentry, fixing vehicles, making sofas, wiring the whole village and all that vocational stuff.
In this 'evil' AI age, some of our expensive MBAs will be replaced by a chatbot in five minutes. But AI is not going to fix your toilet, paint the house or fix up the garden!
So who's going to survive the AI apocalypse? The ghokantey who spent four years memorizing theories that are already obsolete? No. It’s the painter who understands color and chaos. It's the plumber who knows the secret language of pipes. It's the mechanic who can fix a heart-monitor or a motorcycle engine with their bare hands and the carpenter who can build a chair that doesn't wobble.
These will be the most sought-after, highly paid professionals, while the "academically-inclined" are busy updating their LinkedIn profiles to explain why they are still unemployed. I did not say that I think the chicken wings eating, beer-drinking Chip sahuji, our Jensen Daju from Nvidia, said that, although he is minting tons of dough from the AI craze!
It's time to stop forcing our kids to just eat up the textbooks and instead produce a generation that knows how to build something. Let us encourage and inspire our kids and let them become artists, the tinkerers and the makers.
It's time we made trade schools the new status symbol and stop acting like a technical skill is a failure of intelligence. If we don't, then we will just keep producing thousands of college graduates all perfectly prepared for a job market that doesn't exist.
The future belongs to the young ones who can fix things, not the ones like me who write reports on why it can't be fixed!
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Send us your suggestions to vomit @ sukulgunda.com !
You can also buy us momo @ http://www.buymemomo.com/sukulgunda
The 10+2 Natak!
Let us congratulate the once so-lazy National Examination Board (NEB) for finally waking up on the right side of the bed in this Balen era to grace us with the Class 12 results on time, well, even before their own deadline. It took us almost three decades to finally realize that our sarkari karmacharis can do the work on time if they want to, or have to, or are forced to be productive instead of looking for passive income on the side.
According to the results, almost 70% of our high school students have passed their exams. Roughly half a million sit for the SEE (the 10th grade Iron Gate) exams, and 50% fail. Out of the quarter million students in Class 12, 70% pass. So we are left with maybe a hundred thousand or so students, calling them 10+2 graduates every year.
And according to my data, 80% of them somehow find a way to go abroad for further studies, taking more than US$ 1 billion a year of their parents' hard-earned money or meter-byaz loans to foreign universities.
I think it's time we scrap the SEE obsession. During the 90s, it was called the School Leaving Certificate (SLC), as if you passed the 10th grade and it was over, and you could do your thing for the rest of your life. Even now, kids are under pressure to do well for the SEE, but your grades only matter when you pass the 10+2 exams because the universities here or abroad really don't care if you were the class topper in the tenth grade.
Let us save the pressure on our kids and save some of our government's money by just making sure we focus on the 10+2 thing rather than testing our kids every few years on a national scale and wasting our taxpayers' money while making our private schools richer by forcing our parents to cough off extra money and extra hours for the kids for two years even fore they show up the for the SEE!
Well, we are not talking about the SEE today. Let us not force our 15-year-olds to two years of intense academic pressure. I think we should adopt the 'Amriki' model of high school, where education doesn't feel like a permanent state of emergency.
We need to give space to our kids to exist and find their own personalities instead of focusing on their ability to memorize tons of stuff and write it down like a zombie! If some of our kids are not into academics that much, then we can follow the 'German' model for them. Let us give space to the kids who can do well in plumbing, carpentry, fixing vehicles, making sofas, wiring the whole village and all that vocational stuff.
In this 'evil' AI age, some of our expensive MBAs will be replaced by a chatbot in five minutes. But AI is not going to fix your toilet, paint the house or fix up the garden!
So who's going to survive the AI apocalypse? The ghokantey who spent four years memorizing theories that are already obsolete? No. It’s the painter who understands color and chaos. It's the plumber who knows the secret language of pipes. It's the mechanic who can fix a heart-monitor or a motorcycle engine with their bare hands and the carpenter who can build a chair that doesn't wobble.
These will be the most sought-after, highly paid professionals, while the "academically-inclined" are busy updating their LinkedIn profiles to explain why they are still unemployed. I did not say that I think the chicken wings eating, beer-drinking Chip sahuji, our Jensen Daju from Nvidia, said that, although he is minting tons of dough from the AI craze!
It's time to stop forcing our kids to just eat up the textbooks and instead produce a generation that knows how to build something. Let us encourage and inspire our kids and let them become artists, the tinkerers and the makers.
It's time we made trade schools the new status symbol and stop acting like a technical skill is a failure of intelligence. If we don't, then we will just keep producing thousands of college graduates all perfectly prepared for a job market that doesn't exist.
The future belongs to the young ones who can fix things, not the ones like me who write reports on why it can't be fixed!
**************
Send us your suggestions to vomit @ sukulgunda.com !
You can also buy us momo @ http://www.buymemomo.com/sukulgunda