Re: [IAC#RG] Need help securing the rights of homeschoolers

Dear Vidyut

People like us and most of this list (mainly the silent lurkers) are outliers. Conventional systems do not, and cannot, cater for the likes of us - because we expect perfection and will not settle for shoddy stuff.

In your situation, I would explore what the State is capable of delivering and pushed the envelope. Its an uphill task and doubly so for somebody homebound. I am confident that, given time, you would find the "policy" chinks which would permit you to keep your son at home if the State is unable to match your reasonable expectations of international quality education for your disabled child

Since you're probably well ahead of this IAC list in knowing your son's rights under the various very well funded Central Govt schemes of MHRD / Ministry of Social Justice (MSJE) which the State Govts implement, including through NGOs, could you update us with specifics of WHY / HOW your disabled son and those like him are being deprived,

All I get online are posts like this

http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/special-case-primary-education-children-disabilities-india-legally-lacking/

IAC / HRA is especially interested in knowing if the MSJE is not working.

Sarbajit

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Vidyut <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:

It also has a larger environmental and economic impact. The less you are able to reuse things, the more you spend on buying specific things for specific purposes and the more garbage you generate. But if you are taught from early childhood that what is RIGHT comes from authority and if you differ, you are wrong, then you will buy products that are created and certified for specific uses instead of using what you already have. So, your old clothes will end up in some landfill while you purchase tissue papers and dusters and mops.

Do you know anyone anymore who binds left over pages from notebooks to reuse? Go to rural India. You will. And not just because of poverty, but because of sheer lack of exposure to "right" products for every purpose, a poor schooling system and enough opportunities to engage with diverse challenges that have no "right" answers provided. Jugaad thrives where reach of education system is poor in quantity/quality. That is how school kids rig up solar pumps there. Ever thought of that?

The education system is alarmingly lacking in the ingredients that make a mind perform at peak and thus, imposing it even on those with access to better possibilities does not just the children harm, but our overall intellectual abilities as well.

Vidyut