By J.K. Sinha | Founder-Chairman
Shoshit Samadhan Kendra, the fully free English medium residential school for the children of the poorest of the poor, the musahar community of Bihar, run by Shoshit Seva Sangh held the half yearly examination in September 2010. The final exam for the academic year 2010-11 shall be held in March 2011. Given below is the average of marks obtained by the children in all the classes in each subject -
Class English Maths Science Soc. Studies
H / L/Avg. H/L/Avg. H/L/Avg. H/L/Avg.
UKG 99/45/83 99/54/85 NA NA
I 100/66/88 100/45/86 100/68/89 99/63/84
II 93/48/74 99/48/82 99/56/80 96/50/78
III 91/52/73 99/46/75 99/64/90 96/48/83
IV 91/46/67 99/33/67 94/51/74 99/46/78
V 83/50/67 98/55/80 97/73/84 92/56/76
VI 89/54/68 90/68/86 89/54/70 86/57/70
VII 79/66/72 73/40/53 76/56/64 83/60/69
IX 76/62/68 87/44/64 75/51/66 87/73/82
H – Highest, L – Lowest, Avg. – Average
The standard of question set as well as the standard of correction of answer books by the teachers were evaluated by the Mr. B.C. Verma, IPS (Retd.), a very senior retired government servant who is also in the Board of Trustees and is Director of Shoshit Samadhan Kendra. The overall performance is indeed satisfying.
(b) The NDTV, the leading English news channel did a video clip of three and half minutes on our project and this was telecast at prime time on their channel. It is a powerful presentation of the abysmal conditions in which the musahar families live and how the prospects of quality education can really bring hope to the hopeless. The link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0IuLQseut.
(c) Admission test were conducted at the school on November 26 / 27. More than 1000 musahar children were brought by their parents and guardians to appear at this test for 50 seats. As there is no education in this community, the tests were for admission in pre-school class and class I. Children in the age group of 7-10 appeared for the test. Some photographs are attached as these may be of interest. With the admission of these 50 children at the commencement of the next academic year 2011-12, the total number of students at SSK would be 250. It is significant that SSK has no school drop-out and the fact that over 1000 appeared at the test completely contradicts a popular perception that the poorest of the poor are not interested in sending their children to school and would preferred that the children work along side them and earn some money. One is convinced that dropouts are there because the parents as well as the children feel that the school in which they go to provides little or no education and that going to school is therefore a waste of time.
J.K. Sinha
Founder-Chairman
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