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Problems fa ced in rural education- Majority of India still lives in villages and so the topic of rural education in India is of utmost importance. A survey named called the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), shows that even though the number of rural students attending schools is rising, but more than half of the students in fifth grade are unable to read a second grade text book and are not able to solve simple mathematical problems. Not only this, the level of math’s and reading is further declining. Though efforts are being made, they are not in the right direction as they fail to realize that for a child to get properly educated and develop mentally he/she needs to start his education by the time he/she is four. Age’s three to five are considered to be a recognizable developmental stage, and treated as such: children attend kindergarten, and the staffs who work with them have separate training and qualifications and career structures. In rural India the education of a children start their education mostly when they turn five or six years of age mostly by the time by which their natural developmental stage is almost finished this added to the other bad aspects of rural education such as quality of teachers and high number of students in the class does not allow them to properly develop their analytical and logical skills which are required at that stage. Children start developing their phonetic skills as early as 2 to 3 years and whatever language they are taught at that stage they become adept at it. The point which has to kept in mind is that children in rural India only communicate in their regional languages and English as a language has to be taught to them from the scratch when they start their education at age of 5 or 6 by that time they have a hard time grasping the language resulting in loss of interest in school as all the subjects and the books provided are going to be in English. The proposed solution to this problem is to provide the children in with preprimary education where ever possible the most ideal location would be the community center, town hall etc where children along with their mothers can come along. We could set up a class there so that t hrough play-based learning, children learn important early numeracy, literacy and social skills that will help them throughout school - and

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Page 1: Problems Faced in Rural Education

Problems faced in rural education-Majority of India still lives in villages and so the topic of rural education in India is of utmost importance. A survey named called the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), shows that even though the number of rural students attending schools is rising, but more than half of the students in fifth grade are unable to read a second grade text book and are not able to solve simple mathematical problems. Not only this, the level of math’s and reading is further declining. Though efforts are being made, they are not in the right direction as they fail to realize that for a child to get properly educated and develop mentally he/she needs to start his education by the time he/she is four. Age’s three to five are considered to be a recognizable developmental stage, and treated as such: children attend kindergarten, and the staffs who work with them have separate training and qualifications and career structures. In rural India the education of a children start their education mostly when they turn five or six years of age mostly by the time by which their natural developmental stage is almost finished this added to the other bad aspects of rural education such as quality of teachers and high number of students in the class does not allow them to properly develop their analytical and logical skills which are required at that stage. Children start developing their phonetic skills as early as 2 to 3 years and whatever language they are taught at that stage they become adept at it. The point which has to kept in mind is that children in rural India only communicate in their regional languages and English as a language has to be taught to them from the scratch when they start their education at age of 5 or 6 by that time they have a hard time grasping the language resulting in loss of interest in school as all the subjects and the books provided are going to be in English.

The proposed solution to this problem is to provide the children in with preprimary education where ever possible the most ideal location would be the community center, town hall etc where children along with their mothers can come along. We could set up a class there so that through play-based learning, children learn important early numeracy, literacy and social skills that will help them throughout school - and life. Things such as Lego, art class and learning basic numbers and alphabets at a young age can really help children to prosper as students at a later stage. Additionally this will also solve the problem of keeping the students genuinely interested in studies as if they start early and interact with children their age who are interested in studies they percentage of children dropping out will drastically decrease as the ever since a student can remember he has been going to school and not his interest towards education will also increase. It also solves the huge problem of bringing attitudinal changes in children as they can be influenced from a very young age by their teachers.

Green conexxion can help achieve this objective of imparting education to children from a kinder garden level by setting up it is electronic education platform in various village community centers. Green conexxion also has to see to it that its education centers are properly manned by people who set can properly interact with children, provide a good role model for them and guide them into the hallowed portals of education.