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The second step aims to educate the child. There should be special schools where they are taught how to earn a livelihood and where they are made civilised and moulded to be good citizens. Learning methods should cater to each child’s needs since they have not attended normal school. Some children may have attended a few standards and then stopped going to school. Some may not have studied at all from the beginning. Normal schools would not allow these children as they would be overaged as compared to other children in the class, nor would the child be comfortable.
As these children have no formal education they don’t need to be educated like normal students. As they have not gone to schools earlier they may not like to sit in one place and would find it very boring and also escape from the classes that are conducted for them. Therefore education and play should be combined. They should feel that their studies are like a play. Their education should not necessary be the same as for normal students. Some basic and vocational education tailored to each child must be undertaken in these special classes with the help of computers.
I understand Digital Education using computers allows lessons to be done by each child at his own pace. With the help of computers they should be taught various skills, and their qualities, interests should be kept in mind. The children will be benefited with these lessons because then individual attention can be given to them depending on his abilities, how much he has studied earlier, or the type of work he has done earlier.
The third step is for companies to adopt and sponser these children and educate them with the help of computers. The children can be paid some money to compensate for not earning. So there will be no child labour.
Let a ray of light brighten the lives of children who are wringing in pain. With this we will help our country to develop. Children will get some hope in their life and prosper and be regarded as a civilized citizens of the country.
The isolation of children in domestic service also makes it difficult to establish reliable estimates of their number around or in India. Thus due to all this the child suffers from mental and physical strain that affects his life.
However in the prevailing conditions, the child is not at fault. He is forced to work, even though he does not want to.
I think there are five reasons why the child is forced to work. They are:
1. The standard of living of the family is so poor that though they are hard working, they are benefited with an extra hand. They cannot earn enough money thus the child is exploited.
2. Parents live apart and the parent with whom the child is staying is unemployed or does not work.
3. The father drinks a lot and does not earn, the child and mother have to work.
4. One of the other reasons is that the child has no home, he is an orphan. He lives on streets where ever he gets shelter, and has to earn to fill his stomach.
5. The child may also have run away from home because he is not happy or he must have problems or many other reasons. Therefore he has no one to look upon for food and money and is all alone in this big wide world.
Now as the world is developing, computers can help these children to develop their abilities, ideas and guide them. Every child has some special ability which has to be developed.
With the help of computers set up all over the country, the first step is to find out the number of children who do not have any homes and are in need of one. All the children living on the street, who are begging should be collected together. The officer should keep that child for a month and get used to him. Then after knowing the child well he should put the same description on the internet. With the help of graphics, he should show the photo of the child and send it on the net and ask people world wide if they would like to adopt that child. Thus the number of children begging on the streets will lessen. One thing should be kept in mind that the family in which the child goes, should be good and should also be able to afford him.
The second step aims to educate the child. There should be special schools where they are taught how to earn a livelihood and where they are made civilised and moulded to be good citizens. Learning methods should cater to each child’s needs since they have not attended normal school. Some children may have attended a few standards and then stopped going to school. Some may not have studied at all from the beginning. Normal schools would not allow these children as they would be overaged as compared to other children in the class, nor would the child be comfortable.
As these children have no formal education they don’t need to be educated like normal students. As they have not gone to schools earlier they may not like to sit in one place and would find it very boring and also escape from the classes that are conducted for them. Therefore education and play should be combined. They should feel that their studies are like a play. Their education should not necessary be the same as for normal students. Some basic and vocational education tailored to each child must be undertaken in these special classes with the help of computers.
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Maria Lanza | Nov 22nd, 2001
I can't belive tthis is happening in our times! Maria Lanza | Nov 22nd, 2001
Maitreyi,
I found your editorial really informative, like I said, I can not believe it is still happening in our day and age! What type of action has your government take to stop this if any? I think external adoption is a good idea, but my defenses rise at the thought of children being adopted by the companies that force them to work. At best, what would this look like? In the past, Canadian children have really paid the price of residential schools or orphanages that were govenment funded. We now know that institutionalizing children does not work! What about placeing children in foster homes, this solution is not the best, but at least children are in homes. Hmm, tough problem, unfortunately no simple solution!
information needd regarding your text syeda farwa zahra | Jul 23rd, 2003
gud piece n informative , aswell , can you please tell me abbout this CHILDREN RIGHTS policy ....of 1924 , was it declared for the children world wide or just for the citizens of INDIA ...
please clarify
farz_16@yahoo.com
No respect for children Geoffrey Ngugi Murihia | May 4th, 2004
Maitreyi, I have found that even in America, children are not inspired or believed in. I work at a school where I have had teachers and the principle actually tell me that they felt that certain students would never grow up to contribute to society in a positive way. I am doing my part to offset this destructive mind set. Continue to inform people about the tragic lives that the children of today face worldwide
No respect for children Geoffrey Ngugi Murihia | May 4th, 2004
Maitreyi, I have found that even in America, children are not inspired or believed in. I work at a school where I have had teachers and the principle actually tell me that they felt that certain students would never grow up to contribute to society in a positive way. I am doing my part to offset this destructive mind set. Continue to inform people about the tragic lives that the children of today face worldwide
No respect for children Geoffrey Ngugi Murihia | May 4th, 2004
Maitreyi, I have found that even in America, children are not inspired or believed in. I work at a school where I have had teachers and the principle actually tell me that they felt that certain students would never grow up to contribute to society in a positive way. I am doing my part to offset this destructive mind set. Continue to inform people about the tragic lives that the children of today face worldwide
No respect for children Geoffrey Ngugi Murihia | May 4th, 2004
Maitreyi, I have found that even in America, children are not inspired or believed in. I work at a school where I have had teachers and the principle actually tell me that they felt that certain students would never grow up to contribute to society in a positive way. I am doing my part to offset this destructive mind set. Continue to inform people about the tragic lives that the children of today face worldwide
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