Reality of Coaching

A girl after dithering over which coaching institute to join and attending a number of demo classes joins a prominent coaching institute after paying a lakh or so only to find out that she is not being taught by the same teachers during her initial demo classes.
A teenage boy who recently qualified the very prestigious IIT-JEE entrance examination without joining any of the classroom coaching, is simply shocked after an eminent coaching institute publishes his name among one of its best performing students....
These are not stories concocted to underscore one of the most radical problems in our society. These are expandable realities that students have to encounter every day or the other. Coaching institutes nowadays trumpet their achievements and their teaching methodologies but conceal their ingrained predilection for hefty profits which frequently causes considerable pressure even among the parents.
The question arises is that if this is the kind of environment students are supposed to face at educational institutions, how can we even dream of a developed and and prosperous India in upcoming years..?
And the solution lies in clamoring some rational demands which can help us in providing our students with somehow better environment than now.
To have a clear idea about the success ratio of a coaching institute we can simply ask a coaching institute to provide us with a list of enrolled students so that whenever results get declared we can be sure about what exactly is the ratio of successful students.
Similarly a monthly fee system can be demanded and hopefully implemented so that parents having not so healthy financial status can also feel relieved to a great extent. Also we can clarify whether a coaching institute is helping poor, meritorious, underprivileged, other backward classes of students separately if we demand for a separate list of categorical students enrolled therein.
These discerning and rational demands will surely help a student to choose a better coaching institute which would seriously and most importantly focus on achieving the aim , the target, and the career or job objectives of an individual in the right manner towards the right direction.

Students' Oxygen movement view
19/02/2012