The first one was from CNN: Student suicides worry Mumbai educators
February 4, 2010 12:42 a.m. EST
(Video may take time to load...you can go through some quotes from the same story meanwhile)
""It's hard to talk about our experience again and again. But I do it. I do it for my daughter."
--Mahesh Poddar (father of Mini, who committed suicide at the age of 15 years)"
"India has one of the highest suicide rates in the world -- and recent studies suggest about 40 percent are adolescents."
"India's education system is based on rote learning, or memorization, with a strong emphasis on scoring high marks. Classrooms are typically places filled with boiler cooker pressure."
"The suicides were a wake-up call for educators, said Sangeeta Srivastava, principal of Sardar Vallabhai Patel Vidyala, a government school in North Mumbai...Recently, a student from her school ran away from home before exams. "As teachers, we have a lot of effect on the students, even more than parents do," she said."
The second one is a BBC Story: Alarm at Mumbai's teenage suicide trend
By Zubair Ahmed
BBC News, Mumbai
BBC News, Mumbai
11:32 GMT, Monday, 1 February 2010
It begins with Neha Sawant's suicide story in Mumbai and then takes us through the main causes of high suicide rates in India.
Some quotes from this story:
"There is also a general agreement between psychologists and teachers that the main reason for the high number of teenagers taking their own lives is the increasing pressure on children to perform well in exams."
"World Health Organisation Assistant Director-General Catherine Le Gals-Camus points out more people die from suicide around the world than from all homicides and wars combined."
"The home ministry estimates that for every teenage suicide in Mumbai there are 13 failed attempts."
"Ms. Timbekar says that she recently met a child who had not eaten for four days. The child's parents said they were upset with him because he only got 89% in exams and stood third in the class, compared to coming first in previous years. "Such parents need to be counselled," she asserts."
"Dilip Panicker argues that there is a simple solution."If parents love their children unconditionally, with all their successes and failures, the problem would be greatly alleviated.""
Is this what our school education is moving to? At Indus, thankfully, we are completely aware of our responsibilities and are committed to ensure a healthy environ.
"World Health Organisation Assistant Director-General Catherine Le Gals-Camus points out more people die from suicide around the world than from all homicides and wars combined."
"The home ministry estimates that for every teenage suicide in Mumbai there are 13 failed attempts."
"Ms. Timbekar says that she recently met a child who had not eaten for four days. The child's parents said they were upset with him because he only got 89% in exams and stood third in the class, compared to coming first in previous years. "Such parents need to be counselled," she asserts."
"Dilip Panicker argues that there is a simple solution."If parents love their children unconditionally, with all their successes and failures, the problem would be greatly alleviated.""
Is this what our school education is moving to? At Indus, thankfully, we are completely aware of our responsibilities and are committed to ensure a healthy environ.
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