tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85183343383698798522024-03-13T07:59:00.519+05:30Matters of Heart and Mind !This blog shall chronicle my thoughts on random issues of heart and mind.Hope the audience find these chronicles worth their intellectual gravitas.
I would welcome views- which contradict or augment any of the Chronicles, please do post your comments or drop me an email at kumarriteshmishra@gmail.com
Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-88534456522556020772014-01-14T21:33:00.000+05:302016-09-05T03:51:53.066+05:30Blog for the New Year!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dear Passion, Emotion, and Compassion,<br />
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It has been a very impressive year for me at both professional and personal fronts.
However the most important thing which seems to have happened is that I could attempt to strike a balance between you three 'ever warring’ Ladies+ and end up looking better in 2014.<br />
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I want to take this opportunity to make candid confessions to all of you, and all that so publicly.<br />
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Passion, Let me confess, To do something* which is not ‘conventional’, not ‘intelligent’, not ‘respectable’, not ‘viable’, not ‘economically favorable’ and if these were not enough to do something which ‘is stupid’ , ‘is waste of time’ , ‘is waste of a brilliant career’ , ‘is loss to engineering’ , ‘is loss to research’, , IS NOT Easy++ but I promise I shall continue to court you to the core in 2014 as well ..<br />
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Emotion, Let me confess, nothing works with me or works for me, unless you are involved with intimate intimacy. You have driven me in the past and I confess to remain ‘Khub emotional’ for 2014 as well !!<br />
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Compassion, thank you for being there inside…it helps me to be a little relaxed on my own follies and shortcomings, it helps me to empathize with all ‘who can afford to be naïve and blissfully ignorant at cost of future’ , it helps me to prop the other two ladies and show them a proper direction....<br />
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Ladies, I am here because of you and I am happy to be here :__) .<br />
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In the coming year, I need you more than ever before, I need you to help me to be a better person, I need you to be the guide(s), friend(s)and philosopher(s) one always cherishes for…..<br />
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Now, before 3 of you start getting excited, Let me tell you it is not only me who has kept you afloat in my life ..… It is a lot of people, seriously a lot of them ;)<br />
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To name the top 3!<br />
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My Parents who have always believed in ‘whatever’ I do. They are worried at times but that comes more out of love and care than the real ‘worry wala worry’. In 2013 they have just been awesome. Maa- Her health not being at best but you being there when and whenever I need you. Papa- He has been my friend since I was six or seven and 2013 was no different, except that any accident being reported from this part of country, I seem to somehow figure in them..Papa stop the hallucinations :)<br />
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Bhaiya, who brings a semblance of sense back to otherwise ‘no-sense’ approach to most of things I do. In 2013 I have listened and followed few of his tips and they been truly cool to follow..:)<br />
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Nidhi, It is our first year together. She has been tremendous sport. Incredible that she is, it is her charm, grace and superb support which has made this year a ‘memorable one’ :)<br />
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So ladies while I am indebted to you, you know that you need to find a common cause with all those who have made it possible for you, especially the top 3 :,) else life is going to be difficult for you ;-)<br />
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10 minutes to 12 AM and the year 2014.<br />
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Wish three of you a great year ahead...let’s romp! :))<br />
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Warmly,<br />
Ritesh<br />
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Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-7535448251932794992012-09-05T19:32:00.001+05:302016-09-05T03:52:36.947+05:30To You Miss Teresa ! .. Wherever you are, Happy Teachers Day!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Dedicated to
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" Miss Teresa- Best Teacher: One who welcomed me into the classroom with a Big Smile and Cuddly Hug " in my UKG...
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Sitting in a classroom with the smell of chalk and glue,
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I think back to those days when I hated to get up early
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Couldn't stand to be there and couldn't wait to get home.
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In the beginning I was that child that struggled,
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Until the day that special teacher came into my life—
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The first one that believed in me and took time with me—
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The first one that helped me find that school was fascinating
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And that I was intelligent and had something to give—
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The first time I did not have that blank stare—
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The beginning of my lifelong love for learning—
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The beginning of everything.
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And now older and wiser I look forward to going,
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Can't wait to do the work and enjoy every minute of it,
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While most are just wanting to be finished with it.
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There are those of us doing everything we can to get back to it.
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Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-10238907255209418382012-08-25T23:27:00.000+05:302012-08-27T16:58:32.587+05:30I feel I need to do more <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br>It has always been the question of - Am I doing enough? Last 600 days, has been of immense journey - a journey which has made me travel across at least 10 new states of the country , interacting with few education secretaries, state project directors (SPDs) , agencies like UNICEF, USAID, SCERT's , a number of education consultants , Hundreds of teachers (I being lucky to train them, DIETS, BRC's and of course thousands of young kids through them, many of them being first generation learners.</br>
<br><i><b>Two most vivid images of this journey spaced apart with a period of 5-6 months which I would like to share are one that of a young teacher in a remote rural block of a district in Chattisgarh state , ensuring that her kids do not go from school without learning one new thing each day. Second one is that of a committed I.A.S officer , pushing heavy loads of file and finding an year old proposal to get a near dead project re-find life and make it up and working , so that the hundreds of children living in remotest of districts in Hindi Heartland get benefit of an innovative padagogy! </b>
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<br>These two and many such little experiences, have made me realise that, I NOW understand the problems better and perhaps I have a more clear image on WHAT solutions might be!</br>
<br><b>I have a feeling that Individual centers of excellence or isolated efforts like the ones I am doing now, might not exactly be the solution.</b></br>
<br><i><b>Perhaps,</b></i></br>
<br>1. We need thousands of committed individuals like that rural young lady teacher - if we were to near our goal of 'eliminating educational inequity'. </br>
<br>2. We need to invest another hundreds of 'decision makers ' who understand the challenges and the need of pushing newer ideas better.</br>
<br><b>I feel I need to do More ..
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Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-71568699466242570672012-08-03T00:55:00.000+05:302012-08-25T23:43:03.256+05:30The Hues of the NATION<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br /> It has been hectic 5 months. I have travelled so so many states all these months. Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Haryana, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and off course my Second Home Karnataka; that would be 10 states in 5 five months! <br />
<br />All of these travels have been work related, but never felt that I was working! Not that was work is always interesting for ‘an alleged’ workaholic like me, but certainly the fact that I could travel almost the length and breadth of the country, visit or pass by a number of cities, meet a number of people, observe a number of social and cultural patterns, understand a myriad of complexities that the country carry carries in herself, have certainly made this experience quite a rich rich one.<br />
<br />This experience has been so compelling that it has made me Blog about it after a good One year.....<br />
<br />Let me talk take you through the ‘Hues of this nation’…over a period of few days .. During next few days I shall write about the states, the cities, the people, the problems and perhaps the positive I could figure out in all of these …… <br />
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</br> <b>4. Problems</b> </br>
</br> <b>5. Positives</b></br>
<br /> Do keep coming ! <br />
Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-76025797086108692092012-01-16T22:04:00.003+05:302016-09-05T03:55:25.448+05:30PISA 2009+ Reactions from the Minister -Need another Andolan:)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I was watching a debate on NDTV 24X7 on India's pefromance in PISA 2009+ results.
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Participants were Dr. Ratna Dhamija from ACER ,Rohini Nilkeni from Pratham & Dr. D Purndeshwari, Union Minister of state for Human resources (translated as education department)
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By now all of us are aware that Indian states Himanchal & Tamil Nadu ranked 73rd out of 74 countries chosen for the test.
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I was appalled to hear three major replies from the Minister :
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1. Education is State governments responsibility
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2. Need to Question Basis of PISA report
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3. We have given funds in 11th plan for education -so we are done :)
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4. Question ASER new report on technicalities Pratham Education survey (Published in 2011)
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If this is what an educated, apparently well meaning and responsible minister replies .. then we must have another andolan for ' quality education' :))</div>
Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-28293034124476861852011-05-14T21:31:00.000+05:302012-08-26T00:41:20.528+05:30Mangoes and the Grand ma!<br>Sometimes we observe simple things which make us “too emotional” </br>
<br><b>On way to office, at a traffic light, I saw an old woman, nothing to write about but her little action reminded me of many many small things our parents do, without us ever recognizing or acknowledging them...</b></br>
<br><b>Story is...<br></b>
<br><b>The woman bought a mango in seven rupees and hopped on to the bus standing still on the traffic light. The bus conductor asked for the ticket money, she gave the ‘remaining ‘three rupees she had ... The conductor said it is 7 rs. For the ticket... he started howling and scoffing at the old lady... and threw her (almost) out of the bus abusing her ‘amba porgi ‘and everyone started laughing!! All of this happened in a huff...</br></b>
<br>Old woman realizing the insult started crying like crazy. Strangely without any obvious reason, I got irritated and got down of the bus and asked her and asked her ..Why was she crying, when the entire fault was hers?</br>
<br>The reply she gave me left me totally stunned...she said...</br>
<br> <b>“I knew the conductor could do this, but I had promised my little grand daughter that I would bring a mango for her, she is not well. I am crying not because of getting thrown out of the bus but because now I would be late to reach my house and she would be asleep by then!! </b></br>“
<br>I was speechless , We read such things in story books but I was a witness to this & It made me feel small about my definition of sacrifice and love made me feel so small…….</br>
<br>Truly,</br>
<br> Ritesh</br>Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-42905551857310818522011-01-27T00:03:00.000+05:302012-08-26T20:54:14.962+05:30To the TV JOURNOS!
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<br><b>I am an ordinary citizen and quiet naive about what true journalism is but I am dismayed at the bonhomie between journalists & politicians.</b></br>
<br><b>The way they take sides for a particular debate at the cost of loosing objectivity shows no one can be trusted.</b></br>
<br><b>One can have political opinions but leading /misleading public opinions by claiming to have an informed neutral stand on issues reflects the total corruption which has infilterated our society.</b></br>
<br><b>The moral high ground, intense debates & endless analysis on TV, means nothing but double standards at the best!</b></br>
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I hope we all know what trees are! Probably the most vulnerable of all living things and also the ones who breath life into all forms of life.<br />
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I'm not sure how many of us have planted trees. I'm not very sure how many of us have seen them grow. I'm not at all sure how many of us have played with the trees, and hugged a tree(even while playing and totally unaware) or even see a huge tree being cut.<br />
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The joy of being with a tree is something i can't put in words. If i write what it's like to plant a tree and see it grow, i'll be a liar for it is not the pleasure that one gets in the market and it not the happiness one derives by being with a person. It's not all that, but something unbriddled and untold.<br />
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Once in a while, please try to look at those trees when you see one next time for it is too difficult to spot trees these days. The beauty of it's ever turning, ever twisting branches and stretching as if they are touching the skies.<br />
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It stands aloof, far away from everything and yet closely watching everything that goes under and around it. It' has it's aloofness, that strange and untold beauty, it's dignity that's not at all concerned with the morals and immorals of the society. It has all of it from the day it comes out of it's seed till the day it dies. Strangely it has all of it even when it is being chopped mercilessly.<br />
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It's beauty and it's strength lies in the fact that it's vulnerable, it doesn't seek any kind of security. For security, is the most insane and the most dreadful thing that man is pursuing.<br />
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I've been thinking for awhile to give saplings not of plants but of trees to kids. so that they give water to it. take care of it and see what it's like for themselves to be close to that strange aloofness and beauty. I don't know how many of us are really sensitive to things around us for we have destroyed all of it in us.<br />
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A few months back i got in touch with someone who would help me in buying saplings. Now i think i will be able to get saplings for all of us.<br />
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Please let me know if you guys, your kids want to plant trees and take care of them. I want the kids to plant the trees around their houses or their schools and you guys aroud your houses and see them grow. It doesn't make any sense if you are living in dadar and go plant a tree in borivli national park. It's not charity or any of that ugly stuff that we are doing here. It's not any kind of propanganda that i'm doing here and so i'm not going to say a word more about planting trees.<br />
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In case you want saplings, please let me know. It's not in any way compulsory for anyone to plant trees. It doesn't matter how many saplings you ask for. I will make sure you'll get them. It's okay if there is only one kid who has found a place to plant a single tree and want to plant it. I'll make sure that single sapling wouild reach your<br />
classroom. Even if you ask for two hundred saplings, they will be given to your classroom.<br />
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I'm visiting Maharashtra nature park, Rani Baug gardens, Borivli National park and few other places tomorrow to look out for saplings. I plan to give them to you by Friday. So that you can plant them on Saturday and Sunday, unless you think sitting in a class room and learning some words and numbers are more important.<br />
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Also, if you want to help me deliver the saplings, please let me know.<br />
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Also, ____(those of you who haven't met him; he was with akanksha and now with indicorps) had called in a couple of hours back and is bringing hundreds of Aloe vera plants from Ahmedaad for your classrooms which Indicorps fellows have been nurturing for a year now.<br />
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Two quick facts: 300000 new trees are being cut everyday for paper. For every 3000 sheets of paper(A4 size), a fully growm tree has to be cut. On an average, ____cuts two trees everyday. Maye 4 next year.<br />
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For a single take off, a plane consumes 18000 litres of gasoline. Every time a plane takes of, it is burning all the fuel that a housein a village/town could use in it's lifetime.<br />
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But as i said we are not planting trees because we are cutting them but for the sole reason of planting a tree and may be if one is sensitive, alive, to see something grow inside in oneself. Although the chances of it are very rare unless we understand our insensitivity and why we are dull, brutal and insensitive.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">------------------------------------------------------------------x-----------------------------------------------x------------------------------------------</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />
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Jha topped the all-India civil services exams in 2002 and had opted for the IFS as his first choice.<br />
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There was however no confirmation of this incident.<br />
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The misbehaviour incident once again vindicates that academically brilliant folks need not necessarily be a valuable asset for the organization. While those "toppers" & "brilliants" of Indian Ins****ute of Superman Technology & Indian Ins****ute of Superman Managements stand in the que on the platforms of foreign embassies for visa to work as software l****urers, Corporates will still fall at the feet of II|-s only to write GRE/GMAT & fly away from India.<br />
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It is time we take a look at grooming & promoting those loyal to our organizations and country !<br />
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I am writing after a long long time .. After having seen social sector so closely there are things which have become more clear ,You shall read the details of them some months later ...<br />
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Currently I am sharing with you a really INCREDIBLE story of woman , who had nothing but gave it all and achieved REAL results and that too without Extensive marketing and keeping her Humility intact (I am sure she never aspired to be on TV ) ..<br />
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Hope all " change maker - claimers " learn a thing or few from this awesome lady ...<br />
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Another time, another place. The voice, quietly commanding, carries through the breeze across an open maidan in Somurdi, a remote village of Purandhar tehsil in Pune. Sindhu is addressing a crowd, the men sit hunched in front while their women listen from open doorways. Sindhu, 52, quotes poet-saints Tukaram, Namdeo, Bahinabai and Gadgebaba as she speaks of her causeÑbringing up destitute children at five institutions she has set up in Maharashtra. She asks them for donations.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The response is immediate. Sindhu's sari pallu rapidly fills up with coins and currency notes. The village sarpanch promises a quintal of rice to her ashram, the Mamata Bal Sadan, at Kumbharvalan, home to 70 children. A shop owner offers 10 packets of glucose biscuits.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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As dusk falls, Sindhu packs up for her move on the morrow to Satara district, where a meeting with gramsevaks has been scheduled. Deepak Gaikwad, the first child she took under her wing in the 1980s, is accompanying her. In his thirties now, Deepak has taken over charge of Mamata Bal Sadan from his Mai. Mai set up the sadan on a piece of land Deepak inherited from an uncle. Donating the land, Deepak "told me that had I not taken care of him, he would have been nowhere," says Sindhu. It was the second home she built.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Like Deepak, many of the nearly 200 children Sindhu has taken care of are now grown men and women, who stand on their own feet. Again like Deepak, most of them support their Mai in her work. Uttam Yevale, 27, who grew up at Mai's ashram at Chikhaldara at Amravati district, is a college teacher in Ahmednagar. "She is like my mother. In fact, she is my mother," he says.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The days he is free from work, Uttam potters around Sindhu's Gangadharbaba Chhatralaya at Guha, which houses 45 children. It is a bungalow on 10 acres all donated by former Bombay High Court judge B.G. Kolse Patil in 1997. Though he wasn't an orphan, Patil had grown up in a home for destitutes. "It is totally selfless work," he says. "She is a living example of what a woman can do."<br />
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Prakash Sapkal, 24, who grew up in the Chikhaldara ashram, heads the Chhatralaya. The history graduate took up the work after failing to get a government job. "Maybe I will not get money, but all my needs are taken care of," he says. "Besides I am proud of contributing to Mai's work."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Marriage at the age of 10 put an end to the fourth standard student's education. The groom, Shrihari Sapkal, alias Harbaji, was 30. "I was told there are only two processions in a woman's life. Once when she gets married and the other when she dies. Imagine my state of mind when they took me in procession to my husband's home in Navargaon forest in Wardha," says Sindhu. In course of time, she bore three sons. Today, she feels they were born out of the coercive consummation of her marriage.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Sindhu created a sensation in Navargaon in 1972 when she demanded that the forest department pay the village women for the cow dung they collected. The department used to auction the dung to landlords and pocket the cash. "We won the fight," says Sindhu.<br />
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The taste of success was sweet, but it broke up her family. She claims that an annoyed landlord, Damdaji Asatkar, spread the rumour that the child she was carrying was his. "My husband decided to abandon me," says Sindhu. She was beaten up and dumped in a cow shed, where her daughter, Mamata, was born. "It was October 14, 1973," Sindhu intones. "I cut the umbilical cord with a sharp-edged stone lying nearby."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">She later sought shelter at her parental home, but "my mother told me to get lost. 'Go and die on the railway line,' she said." Sindhu wandered from town to town, singing and begging near temples. In Faijpur, Jalgaon district, she left Mamata in the care of a temple priest's family while she moved around singing bhajans. "Those were the days of soul-searching. I began feeling I must do something for those suffering like me."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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The idea was just taking root when she found herself in Chikhaldara. A section of the Melghat jungles on the border of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh had been earmarked for a tiger project. It meant people from 84 villages would have to be evacuated. "I reached there on a very dramatic day," says Sindhu. A project officer impounded 132 cows of the Adivasi villagers of Koha. "For three days he did not free them; one cow died. The Adivasis stood looking at their cows helplessly. That day I decided to take up their cause."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Sindhu fought for the rehabilitation of the 84 villages. In the course of her agitation, she met Chhedilal Gupta, the then minister of forests. He agreed that the villagers ought not to be displaced before the government had made appropriate arrangements at alternative sites. When Prime Minister Indira Gandhi arrived to inaugurate the tiger project, Sindhu showed her photographs of an Adivasi who had lost his eyes to a wild bear. "I told her that the forest department paid compensation if a cow or a hen was killed by a wild animal, so why not a human being? She immediately ordered compensation."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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That made people look upon her with admiration. Soon she realised the plight of orphaned and abandoned Adivasi children. Initially, looking after them was a source of livelihood. It didn't take long for it to become the mission of her life.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Beginning with her first ashram at Chikhaldara, which she says was "a creation of necessity", she went on to set up five homes, her work taking on a momentum of its own. Abhiman Bal Bhavan in Wardha district, for instance, came about when in recognition of her work, her husband's relatives in Wardha felicitated her.<br />
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A home for destitute women, the Nadarmai Mahila Adhar Kendra, functions out of the same building that houses orphans at Chikhaldara. Her homes survive on donations and grants, and she unabashedly begs village after village to put whatever they can into a cloth she spreads out on a table after her speech.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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At the Krantijyot Savitribai Phule Hostel for girls at Chikhaldara, 42 of the 50 inmates receive a grant of Rs 335 a month. "We bear the other girls' expenses," says Sindhu's son Arun Sapkal, who heads the institution and is a co-opted BJP municipal councillor. With money from Arun's curio business and money sent by Sindhu, the inmates get by.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Oh God, teach us how to laugh; </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">but let us not forget that we had also cried once upon a time.' The words are etched on the wall behind Sindhu's chair at the Sanmati Bal Niketan.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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For Mai's children, the sorrow of being abandoned or orphaned gradually fades from memory as they follow the home's regimen. The children are divided into batches which alternately study, work and play. At the Kumbharvalan Ashram, if one group is in the classroom, another will be tending the tomatoes and chillies in the gardens. At the Gangadharbaba ashram, the kids even grow wheat.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">The boys and girls are segregated after the 8th standard. While the boys go to Gangadharbaba ashram, the girls are sent to the girls' hostel at Chikhaldara. There are exceptions. Vishwas Chaphale, 14, stayed on at the Kumbharvalan ashram to help look after the small children, who run to him to get their cuts and bruises bandaged. For a boy who wants to become a doctor, he is starting young.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Quite a few people opt to live and work for Mai. Babasaheb Dushing, 35, left his job as a hotel watchman in 1997. After his wife's death he had sent his children to Sindhu. "But then I realised I could not stay away from them," he says. "So I asked Sindhutai if I could come here." Ever since, Dushing has been working at the Kumbharvalan ashram.<br />
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Some of the destitute women who land up at Mahila Aadhar Kendra are sent as gruhamata (mother of the house) to the children's homes. Kavita Gavand and Lalita Magar are gruhamatas at the Chhatralaya at Guha. While Lalita is a widow, Kavita walked out on her alcoholic and abusive husband. Their children do not stay with them, but at the ashrams in Kumbharvalan and Hadapsar. "It was a deliberate decision to keep the children away," says Deepak Gaikwad. "Most of our children are either orphans or abandoned. What will they feel if some children began staying with their mothers?" Vacation time, however, reunites the kids with their mothers.<br />
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Although the children are not given in adoption, there have been cases where couples come forward to sponsor them. Udaysinh Mohite Patil and his wife, Swaymprabhadevi, have undertaken the responsibility of educating Pawan, who lives with them in Akluj, Solapur district. "My wife had organised one of Sindhutai's functions in our village some five years ago," says Patil. After Sindhu's talk, Swaymprabhadevi decided that they would contribute by sponsoring a child's education. "He studies here and goes to Sindhutai during vacation," says Patil. The couple have decided to sponsor another child as soon as Pawan completes his studies.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Sindhu's work has won her 48 awards, the most prominent being the Maharashtra government's Savitribai Phule award in 1998. It attracted some controversy, too. Critics claim that Sindhu lobbied for the award and was finally nominated from Buldana district, where she does not even have an ashram. Sindhu pooh-poohs the charge. "Had I lobbied, I would not have argued with them at the award ceremony about the paltry sum of Rs 5,000 they were giving," she argues. "I would have been obliged to accept whatever they gave me and keep my mouth shut." Sindhu's creating a scene, however, worked as the then deputy chief minister Gopinath Munde raised the amount to Rs 11,000. "As regards Buldana district, even today I do not know how the government put me there," she says. "I never claimed that I worked there."</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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However, no amount of controversy can detract from the achievements of a woman who at one time lived on alms. So inspiring has her life been that the Karnataka government included a chapter from her autobiography Mee Vanvasi, released in 1988, in its Marathi textbook for 10th standard students.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Today Sindhu proudly states that she has 36 daughters-in-law and 177 sons-in-law. Most of her children are well placed in life. Sham Randive is a lecturer in history at Mhasvad in Satara district. Seema Kokare is an Ayurvedic doctor and settled in Aurangabad. The list goes on. But at 52, Sindhu says she still has plenty more to accomplish. "Let me tell you I am not Devaki who gave birth to Lord Krishna, I am just trying to be a perfect Yashoda."<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="" name="1"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Interview/Sindhu Sapkal </span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: 1;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 36.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Hunger made me speak</span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: 1;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">How did you begin social work? </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I first went to Chikhaldara begging for bhakri (bajra roti) in 1975. Unable to feed myself and my two-year-old daughter, I had almost decided to commit suicide. I was standing under a tree when suddenly its stem caught my attention; I noticed that it had been badly axed, but it was still giving me shade. I almost screamed, 'No I will not die'. I decided to take care of the orphaned children of Adivasis. It is common among them for a man to desert his wife for another woman; the woman then remarries, sometimes abandoning the children. Initially I took care of the children in return for some kutki [a kind of rice], dal and buttermilk.<br />
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">You speak so well at public meetings.</span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">When I used to beg at railway stations, initially I would only sing. Later I thought if I started speaking I could earn more. I used to be so hungry. My hunger taught me to speak and the pain within me taught me to sing.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Who are your idols? </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I draw inspiration from saints like Sant Gadgebaba, Rashtra Sant Tukdoji Maharaj and Bahinabai Chaudhari. Among the gods, I like Lord Krishna. I don't like Ram, I have an ongoing feud with him because he deserted Sita. I also like Veer Savarkar.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Have any children run away from your ashrams? </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Fortunately not. Even when I convinced people to adopt my children, they did not stay with them, because they call me Mai and know that a mother cannot be replaced. The children have been very cooperative. Whenever I brought home new kids, I told the others they might have to drink dal instead of eating it, since it would be more diluted. But they never complained. Many children are married now. Today I can proudly say I have 36 daughters-in-law and 177 sons-in-law. I have always been more protective of girls.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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</span><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Would you like to return to your husband? </span></b><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">I cannot be a wife again. But if my husband comes to me as a child, I will serve him. I am not angry with him, he was not educated, it is not his fault. Had my husband not abandoned me, all this work would not have happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" class="MsoNormalTable" style="background: #DDFFFF; mso-cellspacing: 1.5pt; mso-padding-alt: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook: 1184; width: 90.0%;"><tbody>
<tr style="mso-yfti-firstrow: yes; mso-yfti-irow: 0; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"> <td style="padding: 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><a href="" name="2"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Picking holes in Sindhu's tale</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: red; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Sindhu Sapkal's 70-year-old husband, Shrihari, today lives in Malegaon</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> Theka village in Wardha. Still a cowherd who periodically goes into the jungle, he and sons Amrut, Arun and Sanjay left Navargaon forest two years after Sindhu's departure. "Apart from petty marital differences which are there between every husband and wife, there was no dispute between us," says the wrinkled old man who Sindhu claims threw her out of the house in 1973.<br />
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Shrihari has a different version. "It was a day of great embarrassment for me when she left home," he says. "My community asked me to marry again, but I refused as I had decided to look after the children."<br />
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He can scarcely connect Sindhu the social worker with the woman who was once his wife. "She was so simple," he says. "She has done so much for others, but could not provide us with a proper shelter," says Shrihari. "Just last year, I constructed this house. I never thought of going to her."<br />
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Shrihari says Sindhu fell out with local landlord Damdaji Asatkar over a piece of land. "But he did not harass her." Asatkar's son Vinod, who lives in Navargaon, elaborates: "Her father originally belonged to our village, and used to till the forest land. But after he shifted to Pimpri, the forest authorities gave us the land. And when Sindhutai came here after her marriage, she demanded the land back."<br />
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However, just like the other villagers, Vinod also admires Sindhu, and feels indebted to her and her cow dung agitation. Nanaji Ghode, deputy sarpanch of Navargaon, says: "Today villagers get Rs 1,000 per truck [of cow dung]. We owe it to her."<o:p></o:p></span></div></td> </tr>
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As Sindhutai's fourth child, she shared her mother's trials and sorrows from the day she was born, and is today in charge of the Sanmati Bal Niketan in Hadapsar near Pune. Unlike her mother, she prefers operating behind the scenes, liaising with the government and individuals for donations. Here she speaks about life with her Mai.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">As a child, I wasn't fortunate enough to stay with my mother. I remember the hardships she faced to get me admitted to the Seva Sadan High School in Pune, the way she was treated in a house where we happened to stay for a few days, the tears that rolled down her face time and again, the first time she gave me two rupees to buy sweets when I was appearing for my H.Sc examinations, the sleepless nights she spent when I had surgery for appendicitis. These are images from the past which instantly come to my mind when I think of her. But the picture will not be complete without orphans and destitute children she has brought up. Like me, they too belong to her and she is their mother like she is mine.<br />
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But 25 years ago the situation was different. She was all alone, begging on the streets with her child. She had no shelter, no food, and had to protect herself from the lust and cruelty of society. How she survived!</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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My friends in college always called her 'Mai'. I remember asking her once if she ever felt like studying, having lots of friends and someone to confide in. She listened to me quietly and then said suddenly: "Mamata, if you are talking about the feelings and emotions which one experiences as a youth, I do not even know when it was all over for me. If you are talking just about education, I am fulfilling my desire to study through you, and in you, I have someone to confide in." That was the moment when I felt I had grown up. Since that day our friendship has been gaining strength day by day.<br />
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In 1990, mother was in hospital, when father came to see her. There were three people standing in front of me and I did not know which one was my father. Then mother told me he was the man on the right. He spoke to me, asked me to come to Wardha, but added hastily that if I did I should say that I had come on my own and that he had not invited me. I just didn't feel anything.<br />
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Mother's ability to work is just amazing. She can work tirelessly for 8-10 days at a stretch. There have been times when she has travelled throughout the fortnight, come home for a while and then set out again. She is ever willing to respond to a plea for help from an orphan or a destitute. Whenever I ask her to take some rest, she refuses, saying she cannot afford to till every institution she started becomes self-sufficient.</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><br />
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Sometimes I force her to take rest, treat her to her favourite baingan bharta and bhakri (bajra roti). She has been a mother to so many of us. Now I want her to take rest and allow me to be her mother for a while.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 26.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">Hope it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>InspireED you !!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div>Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-16770218305657338892010-09-09T22:03:00.000+05:302010-09-09T22:03:22.651+05:30Parents meeting in an Unprivileged municipal school ! - 9/9/2010<h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; font-weight: normal;">It could be quiet a challenge if you are upto doing something impossible!!</span></h1><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“ Bhaiya , aaz tho koi nahi aanay wala “ – quipped All Knowledgeable school teacher <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Dekhtay hain ! “ – Bhaiya says with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>characteristic confidence !<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1.Sharing the feelings : Parents &<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2. Discussing Month End results – Scholars, Improvers ,Red Zone’s .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>3. Felicitating the Achievers & Recognizing accomplishment in competitions .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>4. Plans ,Accelerators , Strategies for Individual Kids .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5. Open Forum for Parents .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>6. Agenda for upcoming holidays and Thank You note .<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext .75pt; border: none; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
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Truth and Dare!<br />
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Though my professors at a reputed engineering college down south always rated me highly but they never rewarded me in ample proportion for the simple reason that I was not the text book types .<br />
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I was not a student who would take down the derivations quietly without understanding each step and more importantly the often declared “ silliest “ step . I was not a student who would come to class least bothered about what is happening in the class. This often troubled me a lot .The Professors felt challenged and my classmates felt irritated at my “ whys “ , “why nots “ and “what if “ ..<br />
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A really bad habit ….. asking questions in the class ..The Education system almost gave me “NFTE “ (Not fit for technical education..or whatever they meant by them ).<br />
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Today, The tables have turned I am a teacher . I have started feeling disappointed at students who are not able to “ ask questions”. I have started feeling slightly disturbed at a system which does not allow any points for inquisitiveness , fearlessness , & creativity . <br />
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I am equally puzzled as my teachers were :PRiteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-33044298173989434752010-04-17T22:21:00.000+05:302016-09-05T04:09:21.092+05:30The Challenges of Being ABU.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hi ! I am Abu ! I am 9 years old. I sell news papers and I study in Grade 3. I will be in Grade 4 Next month . I am happy and I am sad . HAPPY because I will go to the next class And my teacher remains the same , SAD because , I would be selling the news papers again , My mother will be selling the news papers , my father will be resting ‘six months a year’ again . I would be living with my Nani , even though I want to be with my ma and my little brother Amu…. <br />
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I want to be a good boy, infact I believe that I can be the best boy, who has ever studied in grade 3. But I do not understand why my BHAIYA (the new teacher) does not understand my problems? , why my father does not understand my problems? , why my mother expects me , the little boy, to share her emotional burden? , I do not understand why my “Nani” and “Mamus” expect me to behave like 18 year old all the time! I really do not understand why my class mates don’t understand my jokes (which my Bhaiya says are really funny but reprimands me for cracking them all the time ) . <br />
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I am little confused, when I study a bit, I get excellent marks, when I study a little less I get OK marks! I was once a topper , I was once the cynosure of the teachers eyes (even though I was thrashed many a times by them ….) but this new teacher (self assuming Bhaiya ) does not allow me this privilege of being the best , other students have gone far ahead than me in terms of scoring marks and scoring brownie points from the teacher! I have started complaining .I have started quarreling, picking up a fight with almost anyone who ever got the slightest of praise & appreciation in the class ! I feel bad about it .I have started feeling terrible at the feeling of being labeled bad.<br />
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What can I do ! This News paper thing is killing me . I am late everyday because of it .Distributing them in 50 houses spread across 3 blocks in Police Colony and NCL campus is not an easy job , but mamu says I have to learn tricks of the trade early, but why ? Didn’t I say Bhaiya that I want to become a Scientist? I picked a book from the old news paper store the other day “. It was about “RANDY PAUSCH “ .I read a page or two from it .I really liked .I imagined it to be a book from a poor aspiring scientist like me .I gifted it to Bhaiya thinking that maybe he could help me (he seemed ,as the only one ,in any likelihood , to do so) . Bhaiya liked the book and he actually showed me the video of Mr. Pausch. I also knew about Internet that day . I got to Know about the GOOGLE. I can find so many things and so many pictures about the planets about which I had heard about in the geography class. I confessed to Bhaiya, I actually wanted to discover a Planet or discover something inside a planet. Bhaiya seemed super excited to hear this …...Does he Love me?<br />
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I have started listening to Bhaiya. Bhaiya allows me to be a bit late in coming to class. He seems to understand a bit. I feel doing my best. I threw a challenge to my “friends “in class that I will be best ...BUT then something really unfortunate happened … My little brother Amu was being teased by one my friends in class, I became very angry, infact I was angry from before only: P , I hit him hard and made him cry. A complain was made against me, to My Principal Miss .Bhaiya was also sitting in the staff room. I had hit my friend really hard , I did not intend to but I had to protect my little brother (who else will ? ) . I was punished; I was suspended from school for 4 days. I was really angry at Bhaiya , he did not help me . I was really angry with my friend , why did he have to tease Amu , I was really angry with myself why did I do this ? I went to Mumbai to meet my Aunts, they live near the sea shore .Oh I saw so many things I could ever see in pune .I wrote it all, in case someone asks <br />
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I came back. Bhaiya did not talk to me for the first 2-3 hours, the day I came to class, I did not know why…. But then I had to ask him why was he not looking at him, even when I was sitting quietly and raising hands to give an answer? Bhaiya told me that I should “say sorry” to my friend and to My Principal Miss before being part of the class! But I wanted to say sorry only to Bhaiya, no one else but then he explained again, if he said sorry to both of them, he would accept that as a sorry to him. He is a Nut , I Guess . I did that ! , Bhaiya told that I was a Good Boy!! I felt good about it , I was happy all day.<br />
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I am feeling sad again, Three Class trips in a row, I was not allowed by my NaNI and Mamu to go to any of them. They thought the trips were not the best thing to do, perhaps selling news papers was far better ! I protested , I cried , I made all arguments but these people are dumb .In the last trip , to make it fool proof , I made Bhaiya to call my mamu , mamu said “ok , he can go” , but NaNI made a great excuse “ I am ill , I cannot send Abu “ .I was determined to tell this to Bhaiya , I told about the lies which Nani tells whenever she has to say NO to anything ! I did not miss the trips, but it would have been great to Know about the Anemometers, Hygrometers, and Pyranometers which my Friends knew about , after one of the trips …..<br />
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We have finished our Final Exams; I stand 5th in the Class Overall. Even though I Know, I can be the best but what to do I am still 5th !<br />
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Today was one of the happiest days, in the whole year! Bhaiya was coming to my house, he had promised! .Though Our House is bit small (rather very small, only one room) it is not that untidy. I know our house is near a drain , it is made up of Iron sheets, and it is slightly hot! But we have a Fridge , a TV (good one), two little beds to keep us comfortable and Cozy. I live with my mamu in a better place but I like coming to this place all the time because My Ma lives here. I am not sure why father does not go tO work so many days, I secretly hoped, he Goes to work when Bhaiya comes to visit. …<br />
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Bhaiya came walking with me, he was finding it really difficult to walk in the hot sun, and He walked almost 2 km before we could reach my house (slightly of the main road: P)! On the way he was asking lot of questions about “Hot Sun /Randy Paunch / My ambition to become a scientist and the progress I made in that / about my favorite Amu etc.” I was so excited to answer him. I saw my friends playing in the hot sun , they are mad (I shouted , Pagal ho gaylay kya , itni tez dhup may Khel rehlay ho ! ) .But I was secretly happy , I could show off “ Bhaiya “ , after all not every day he comes ! <br />
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Enter my house, My father had not gone to work , he was sleeping with a blanket over him , How can he sleep like that ? May be he was drunk, maybe he had come from night duty.. May be …. My mother was back from work & as usual cleaning everything, almost everything … She was happy to see me back, but a little sad to see a sweating Bhaiya at the door ... But then Bhaiya always makes all of us smile, maybe he does that too with Ma .. <br />
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Bhaiya always works with an agenda , I asked him Bhaiya , how will you write here ? (Seriously, I did .. .. ) Questions after Questions , why Abu did not come for class trip , why my parents do not come for parents meet , How did they find this place , how long they have been living here ? I was getting bored I switched on the TV !! <br />
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Oh, fatal mistake... Ma opened up the complain box , Abu does this , Abu does that.. Oh so many of them ,Too much for my Fixed Agenda Bhaiya to solve at one Go !! They Discussed and Discussed … oh my God ! My ma could speak so much ? …<br />
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And , then I was forced to make many Promises today .Promise to be Good , Promise to be punctual , Promises to try listening to persons other than Bhaiya ....But I was Feeling Good about it … I was happy that someone wanted a promise out of me. ..I ran to bring “Maza “ – my favourite “Kol-drink “, Bhaiya likes it too! I had done the research …<br />
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I am happier than I WAS....... I HAVE Promised to be Good , to be better…Allah help me to keep my Promises ... ( I said to Bhaiya , I Would try my best )… <br />
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Hope I Turn out to be the best Boy in Grade 4 ….<br />
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Disclaimer : This piece of writing is purely imaginary , based on writers experience, understanding and interactions with one of his students over a period of 10 months of his fellowship with a NGO ......</div>
Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-39431384175280656552010-04-06T01:45:00.001+05:302010-04-06T01:50:56.093+05:30Fellowship Year End Reflections !!End of Year Reflections<br />
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Let’s be realistic about it . Pride cannot be quantified !! But still I am extremely proud of the efforts the students as a group and as individuals have put into . <br />
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1. How proud are you of your accomplishments with Fluency, either with the whole class or with individual students? What did (or didn't) you do that did or did not enable success in Reading Fluency?<br />
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From a class which dreaded reading anything at all, they have turned into kids who give their best try at all the times .They are not afraid anymore . They recognize i) application of phonics , ii) use of punctuation symbols in reading , iii) using syllabication ,Over all ‘ desire ‘ to succeed as good readers is really intense . There has been a quantifiable improvement in RF Levels .<br />
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Did : Identifying their challenges , Giving the students ample time to work at their own pace, and encouraging Role of ‘leader readers ‘ and ‘peer teaching ‘ <br />
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Did Not : Could give individual attention to the weakest of the students (namely 2-3 of them ) due to paucity of time .<br />
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2. How proud are you of your accomplishments with Writing, either with the whole class or with individual students? What did (or didn't) you do that did or did not enable success in Writing?<br />
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Writing levels of Kids have not shown significant improvement. We would be fooling ourselves if we expected the kids to become writers in 8-9 months time. The primary reason being the extremely poor knowledge of grammar and poor vocabulary .<br />
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Did : Put in efforts to stimulate their creativity by challenging them to do picture based writing ,writing letters to each other ,writing small messages to their parents ,principal etc . Putting stress to use i) phonetic spellings ( in case they did know the actual spellings ) , ii) use Punctuation symbols iii) Apply their new Grammatical awareness while writing .<br />
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Did Not : Could not conduct Writers Work Shops .Could not make them to be original writers having their own ideas to write (of course few of them 4-5 , have shown exceptional skills as good writers ) Could not churn in the importance of writing and being good at it !<br />
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3. How proud are you of your accomplishments with Speaking and Listening skills (including the level and amount of English spoken in the classroom), either with the whole class or with individual students? What did (or didn't) you do that did or did not enable success in Speaking and Listening?<br />
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It often amazes me , how a class which hard time comprehending “come here “ ,”please close the window “ “ face me “ is now confident enough to speak in ENGLISH to CEO of a company (in one of the field trips ) .They can understand a decent level of conversation in English and are able to respond to it .These students have been speaking increasingly better English & friendly Marathi .<br />
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Did : Story telling sessions were real fun with the kids , they enjoyed every bit of it and they have become very good listeners . Tremendous confidence building in speaking . Workshops were fun and they can now speak in front of anyone and everyone (without being shy and sissy :P) on topics of common interests .<br />
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Did Not : Could give them ample opportunity to test their skills . Moreover it would have been great if they could translate this ability to read their (speak out ) SSC text books to each other and enjoy listening to them .<br />
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4. How proud are you of your accomplishments with Reading Comprehension, either with the whole class or with individual students? What did (or didn't) you do that did or did not enable success in RC? (I will not ask us to think about Grammar, but if you want to, you can.)<br />
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Teach For India EOY (End of Year ) assessment class average in RC is 67 % , which should stand a perfect alibi to their increased ability to comprehend English .<br />
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Did : Lot of Reading Sessions in the Class (with age appropriate text ), Lot of fun activities based on “on stage reading “ , “individual reading corners “ , “group reading sessions “ , “finding out the meaning and explaining to each other” !! I think this has helped them to shed their fear to read and understand .<br />
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Did Not : Stress on Grammatical accomplishments , solely due to the fact that Grammar skills have to built over a time period . <br />
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5. How proud are you of your accomplishments with Maths, either with the whole class or with individual students? What did (or didn't) you do that did or did not enable success in Maths?<br />
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How indebted I feel to these Kids , My own inhibitions against this monster called Math have been shattered !! I almost feel to rework all my Math workbooks from K1-12 once again ! Please tell this to my Pa & Ma .<br />
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Lets be simple at this . They want more and more math homework. Math happens to be their favourite subject . EOY assessment results for Top 20 of class is 70 % .<br />
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6. For those of you in 3rd and 4th Standards, how proud are you of your accomplishments with Science, History, Geography, and Civics, either with the whole class or with individual students? What did (or didn't) you do that did or did not enable success in these subjects?<br />
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>> Ok . we grow . Plants grow . but most important is mud (Soil ). Without Mud - even if you put water , give the leaves sunlight -no food be cooked .... so ........... Aniket is - Thinking Star of the Day !!!<br />
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>> 3rd Grade Civics text book says " We should respect all religions " - I tried to find out if they knew anything about religion : they had no idea of being a Hindu , Christian or a Muslim , i explained Allah -Bhagwan-God are same people with different names . PRATHMESH asks .then why did stone age man decide to become ...<br />
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7. How have your students changed in their behaviour? How has the level of violence or conflict changed in the class? How respectful are they of you and of OTHER teachers? What did (or didn't) you do that did or did not enable success in behaviour?<br />
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What do you mean ?? What Violence ? They are just kids and they have all the right to be kids , and respect , they say has to be earned ! <br />
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We are not great Psychoanalysts (the one we are trying to pretend to be !! ) .<br />
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Let them Bloom and flower without being mechanical !<br />
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8. What is your ONE greatest learning from this past year in your classroom?<br />
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These Kids can teach us more than we can teach them !!<br />
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<i><b>Of course , title of this blog is inspired from “God Of Small things “ by Arundhati Roy (?) . However it has no resemblance to the negativity and cynicism generally associated with her writings (or my writings too ?? Though , I am in no miniscule way comparable to her astounding literary prowess).</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<i><b>I have been reading a lot lately (2 Ls and the tune) . Sorry , if you get any inclinations to associate me with reading books of Marxism , works of Great Capitalists , Big Volumes of gifted writers and poets , Success stories of great achievers or publicity stunts of writers like Faken Sagats , You are wrong ! I read simple things , I write simple things .</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<i><b>I do so, because simple things make great sense to me. I find a lot of comfort in relating myself to ordinary events , ordinary people and modest achievers . Not that, I am afraid to achieve , scared to learn or too lazy to innovate , it is just that I can derive ( and I believe many of us can ) great strength from small stories . The goodness (or GODness!) of such stories is that, they are not manipulated, they happen without a plan , they happen because the pall bearers of the stories happen to be the best of human beings . Such Human Beings create stories and events which are good .I like to read such stories , I am interested in such events </b></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i> <b><i><span style="color: blue;">I am a reader of Good things !</span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Now that I have expressed myself well enough (ha ha ha – attempt at controlled executive laughter ;-> ) , I wish to share with you some Small Events and stories , I have read , heard or observed . Sources of these stories are quite common: Internet Blogs , News Papers , Friends blabbering Mouths - My Sincere ears , Keen observations and a desire to write a blog !!<o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I will not entertain you much , I have 5 such Good Things to share with you for now , If you want to read more , please start reading and searching yourself </i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "wingdings";">J</span><o:p></o:p></i></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">EVENT ONE </i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "monotype corsiva"; font-size: 18pt;">: <u>Charlie’s an Angel ! <o:p></o:p></u></span></i></b></div>
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<i><b>After having read such stories , I am sure some of you might have felt certain amount of satisfaction .</b><b><o:p></o:p></b></i></div>
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<i><b>We need to find our own Small stories of Happiness .. Tons of Events wait for us , to give us solace , to comfort us , to inspire us ….</b><o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-84299846612463560712009-12-17T21:44:00.006+05:302012-08-26T20:43:51.717+05:30Thank You Kids : Just to Pep self ...<br><b>This is the " Little Speech ", I had made in my school on Children's Day.</br></b>
<br><b>I thought to share it with friends out of my continued quest to find definitions of "Teacher Impact on Student Achievement". </br></b>
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<br>You know what, today is children’s day! It is your day Kids,But...
<br>What do we mean by that ??..smiles smiles ..</br>
<br>It means it is a day for we teachers and Bhaiyas to THANK YOU all students who are attending our classes.</br>
<br>When you learn so complex things so easily , when you are so excited to answer a question in the class, when you come all the way in Rain and the wind in your rickshaw it really makes us feel extremely proud ...</br>
<br>Let me share you something which I observed on .…..Diwali celebration programe ...</br>
<br>Grade 4, It is not an easy job to do a Ramayana , which you did with such good presentation and so beautiful costumes ..</br>
<br>Std 5 was too good with fashion show !! </br>
<br>Grade 2 as usual was fabulous – remember your newspaper girl!</br>
<br>than All vegetables and fruits from Grade 1 looked tasty and tempting !! ;-)</br>
<br>Grade 3 was as usual fabulous!!..</br>
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<br> <b>The arts and the crafts you have learnt are amazing , the paintings and the drawings you make are truly inspiring !! </b></br>
<br> <b>It is all of you who bring joy, satisfaction, and very good moments in class.</b></br>
<br> <b>We teachers would be happier, if you really work hard, come to class everyday, help us to teach you better, so that you can have more knowledge and get all your dreams.</b></br>
<br> <b>Once again , just to let ya know once again , we are very very proud to Have such wonder ful children.</b></br>
<br> <b>Have a wonderful CHILDRENS DAY !! Enjoy ...</b></br>
<br> <b>We are always with you !! Be happy ALL THE TIMES.</b></br>
<br> <b>Thank you,</b></br>
<br> <b>On Behalf of all teachers .....</b></br>
<br> <b>Ritesh Bhaiya ..</b></br>
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<br>I believe little talk , Peppy One to Ones, Encouraging Simple words , Body language , are more successful tools in Creating Super Achievers .. than the "TEACHING TOOLS " we keep harping about ... </br>
<br>PS: It looks simple , but I really struggled a lot for this one ... How difficult it is to grow old and speak like adults ;)</br>
<br>Hope you found this one interesting....</br>
</blockquote>Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-30207712485749535532009-12-15T20:32:00.007+05:302009-12-16T20:55:54.881+05:30The Coin Flips - You are the Best ;)<div align="center" class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'MS Reference Sans Serif', sans-serif;">Why does one feel suffocated at a place – assumed to be a “ Platfrom at change “ ?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: 'MS Reference Sans Serif', sans-serif;"> i) We speak in most fluent Language infront of a “select audience “ . <span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">OR because</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">we would create the </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">best of</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">environment in the “ little class rooms “ – where Kids Speak freely on matters of Heart & Mind !</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: 'MS Reference Sans Serif', sans-serif;"> ii) We crib all the time , and fail to speak when it matters most !<span style="color: blue;"> OR because</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">we create </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">and</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">Value</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">a pool</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">of</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">individuals who are “ leaders “ in their Own might – Who can take a challenge to visit</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">to </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">“ most difficult of places “ </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">& discuss with least invested people</span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;">and yet manage to get success ! </span><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span style="color: blue;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<br><b>Abhishek Bhaiya -He shares Our Flat. Looks like he is "invested” in TFI too! ;) Unleashing Play! Chaitrali , Sunny , Nupur , Khritik , Karthik , looking with great interest , in a "Vague " attempt to understand " what internet & google are all about " ! They Confuse it with googol- the number with 100 Zeroes!!</b></br>
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<br><b>Posing Together - after a tiring day of intense "football " , Swing ,Slides and "ball throw " - Bhaiya's day OUT :) , I am still feeling the cramps , I played for so many hours -- last SUNDAY with them !!</br></b>
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<br><b>Slant Line - Curved line- Straight Line and they wave after climbing ..too much of Geometry I say !!</b></br>
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<br><b>Slide - and the Joy :)</br></b>
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<br><b>Boy they are happy!!! - and they have just finished 2 lessons in science , 2 lessons in history , 1 in geography , dictation , speaking and talking about the projects :)) So they look tiered ?? Energy!! @Hats of Kids!!</br></b>
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<br><b>An afterthought and a realisation minutes later !!Boy -it takes everything out of you - emotionally mentally , physically --- all exhausted after six hours off " Work Hard- Get Smart ";</b></br>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>iii)</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Identifying relation of</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> " </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>putting in</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>hard & smart work</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>to</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>“achievement “ </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>The magnanimity of small bits of </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>“ THE CHANGE “</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>is quiet satisfying </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>.</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b></b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>I guess it is a</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>fair bit of</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>success, to be celebrated</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>The Challenges </b></span></span></u><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></u><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span> </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Some of the students have been really challenging. I would like to write about</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>two examples from opposite ends of the "skill spectrum "</b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span> </span><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>My class is having students from Extremely Slow learner to Super duper intelligent brats !;)</b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span></u><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Group 4</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>:</b></span></span></u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Typically these students would be Slow learners, shortest attention span, issues at home ,</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>constant attention seekers . It was a real challenge to get across them!!</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>More than their learning ability it was constant need of paying individual attention </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>which</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>was the biggest problem</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>.</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span> </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>> It is almost</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>very surprising that one of the kids was almost at pre k level . </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span> </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>>one</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>kid</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>has</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>a single parent and he is a single child , it was</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>uniquely</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>unfair to have high expectations from him given the fact that he spent</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>six hours(after school )</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>at home all by himself all</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>alone .</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span> </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>></b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Another kid , who seemed quiet interested in class , showed almost no improvement in academics or behavior ,I was to find out later that “lot of joint family fights” was</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>affecting a great deal .</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span> </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Group 1 :</b></span></span></u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Typically they were kids who were smart , result oriented , but the matter of concern with them was</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>they would</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>“refuse “ to adapt to the</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>different approach to learn .</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> Learning without understanding, Memorizing facts , Parroting them , practicing by repeated writing would</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>leave you puzzled . </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>> One kid actually refused to Independent Practice sheet , saying, “ he does not get time after home tuitions to do the same .</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>></b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>A sub group of kids actually had a habit of taking the </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>: independent sheets their “ home tutors “ or “ parents” to get them solved !!</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>> Some kids would </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>be unwilling to learn new methods to do things </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>, for example , when addition by carry over was being taught to them , they would not do through ones –tens – hundreds , even after repeated requests </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>J</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>School & School System</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></u><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
</b></span> </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>This might sound a bit cliché , but I on a personal level do not find</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>much issues with school system . They are doing a fairly decent job in terms of students investment and “giving it all “ </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>> Free books , notebooks , school bags , midday meals , nominal meals</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>etc are some of the positives of the system .i am sure this helps lot of the parents to actually</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>send their kid sto school (In the context of social and economic background they come from )</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>>> Even the teachers from the PMC board seem to be trying their best of course the "interests levels and apathy sometimes do bother you :) </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>However Scope of improvement always exists . </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>On part of teachers they could really try to teach more concept based learning than form the</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>traditional methods </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>. They could perhaps</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>be bit more flexible in the terms of “finishing</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>the book “ A little bit of innovation and</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>involovement would really work wonders</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>with the</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>student achievement .</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Learning from principal and other teachers </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></u><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Principal /other teachers are</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>source of immense experience .They have been doing the job from so many years .They definitely have been source</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>of</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>great support in terms of class room management and</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>realizing the difficult back grounds from which these students come from .</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Students’ community</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></u><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Oh this has been a real eye opener in terms “what we understand “ and what it actually is !!</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Student’s communities are real challenging places in terms of sanitation, basic</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>health care awareness. .The Importance of education and realization that</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>a</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>good education could actually mean an end to the woes , is real low .Performance</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>expectations and the resultant</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>academic</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>successes have therefore been real low . Lastly I would say the kids are really “brave “ when they are showing so much</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>willingness to learn and promish to improve , inspite of the hardship they are in .</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><u><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Personal Transformation</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></u><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>I believe that the</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>basic beliefs of a adult</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>person remain same</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>through out his / her</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>life .The sensibilities ,sensitivity and the personal ethos are integral part of human psychic .The things which change are methods , routes and the intensity .Exactly the same has happened to me in last six months.</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>Relationships may have seen a bit up and down, with parents and near and dear ones</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>due to the decision of joining TFI . However I do realize the magnamity of the task we are doing. It has always struck me how important it is for us to do this . The core beliefs have been reinforced .I am pretty more convinced to do this. </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #E0E0E0; border: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext 2.25pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>The little changes like “ newly acquired skills</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>“</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>to draw pictures/pencil drawings</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>“</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>“ writing a poem “ or “ sing a song “ for the kids have been personal highs ;-> . I consider these things as a</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>means to explore and stretch myself</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>beyond straight , hard task master , deadline , delivery man as I have been throughout</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>25 years of my existence</b></span></span><span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> ....</b></span></span><o:p></o:p><br />
</div></div>Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-87598758381099794312009-10-29T00:57:00.004+05:302009-10-29T00:57:50.141+05:30The Ant and The GrassHopper !!!<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><br />
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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The Grasshopper thinks the Ant is a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.<br />
Come winter, the Ant is warm and well fed. The Grasshopper has no food or shelter so he dies out in the cold.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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*Indian Version:**<o:p></o:p></span></u></i></b><br />
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The Ant works hard in the withering heat all summer building its house and laying up supplies for the winter. The Grasshopper thinks the Ant's a fool and laughs & dances & plays the summer away.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Come winter, the shivering Grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the Ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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NDTV, BBC, CNN show up to provide pictures of the shivering Grasshopper next to a video of the Ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The World is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be that this poor Grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Arundhat Roy stages a demonstration in front of the Ant's house.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Medha Patkar goes on a fast along with other Grasshoppers demanding that Grasshoppers be relocated to warmer climates during winter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Mayawati states this as `injustice' done on Minorities.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Amnesty International and Koffi Annan criticize the Indian Government for not upholding the fundamental rights of the Grasshopper.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The Internet is flooded with online petitions seeking support to the Grasshopper (many promising Heaven and Everlasting Peace for prompt<span style="color: #006666;">support as against the wrath of God for non-compliance) .<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Opposition MPs stage a walkout. Left parties call for 'Bengal Bandh' in West Bengal and Kerala demanding a Judicial Enquiry.CPM in Kerala immediately passes a law preventing Ants from working hard in the heat so as to bring about equality of poverty among Ants and Grasshoppers.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Lalu Prasad allocates one free coach to Grasshoppers on all Indian Railway Trains, aptly named as the 'Grasshopper Rath'.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Finally, the Judicial Committee drafts the ' Prevention of Terrorism Against Grasshoppers Act' [POTAGA], with effect from the beginning of the winter.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Arjun Singh makes 'Special Reservation ' for Grasshoppers in Educational Institutions & in Government Services.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The Ant is fined for failing to comply with POTAGA and having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, it's home is confiscated by the Government and handed over to the Grasshopper in a ceremony covered by NDTV.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Arundhati Roy calls it ' A Triumph of Justice'. Lalu calls it 'Socialistic Justice'.<br />
CPM calls it the ' Revolutionary Resurgence of the Downtrodden ' <br />
Banki moon (UN<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Seceratory general) invites the Grasshopper to address the UN General Assembly.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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The Ant has since migrated to the US and set up a multi-billion dollar company in Silicon Valley, 100s of Grasshoppers still die of starvation despite reservation somewhere in India,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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As a result of losing lot of hard working Ants and feeding the grasshoppers, India is still a developing country.....<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div>Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-36953177840210581902009-10-20T03:38:00.001+05:302012-08-26T00:07:20.318+05:30Letter to the School Principal :On teachers day !<br> Dear Ma'am, </br>
<br>Not many days have passed since I have been a teacher. It has been an incredibly complex, yet a Nobel experience to be one. In this Small, yet most transitional Journey so far. Your Presence has Our Head teacher has been greatly inspirational, truly guiding and most reassuring.</br>
<br>I have seen the most interesting and extensive school assembly ,with Plenty of songs ,exercises and excited kids bubbling with joy, learning notwithstanding.</br>
<br>The involvement and enthusiasm shown by you during the school functions is worth emulating. Your rapport with the teachers and parents has been truly comforting. The clear and crisp, instructions at the staff meetings have been to the point.</br>
<br>The Independence – to teach in the best possible way in the respective classes, is one which makes the school environment quiet amicable. </br>
<br>It has been a real pleasure working under your able guidance. Be it permitting a special class and taking lessons under the tree in the playground, or having a flexible class periods – as per lesson needs , you have been at your cooperative best . Allowing for free interaction with co –teachers and parents, and appreciating involvement in kid’s communities reflects our shared vision for the kids.
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<br>As a token of gratitude, I wish to share an inspiring letter written by Abraham Lincoln which was sent to the headmaster of a school where his son was attending.</br>
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<blockquote></blockquote><b>In the school ,</b>
<br>Teach him,it is far more honorable to fail than to cheat.</br>
<br>Teach him to have faith in his own ideas, even if everyone tells him they are wrong.</br>
<br>Teach him to be gentle with gentle people, and tough with the tough.</br>
<br>Try to give my son the strength not to follow the crowd when everyone is getting on the band wagon.</br>
<br>Teach him to listen to all men but teach him also to filter all he hears on a screen of truth, and take only the good that comes through.</br>
<br>Teach him if you can , how to laugh when he is sad.</br>
<br>Teach him there is no shame in tears.</br>
<br>Teach him to scoff at cynics and to beware of too much sweetness</br>
<br>Teach him to sell his brawn and brain to the highest bidders but never to put a price-tag on his heart and soul.</br>
<br>Teach him to close his ears to a howling mob and to stand and fight if he thinks he's right.</br>
<br>Treat him gently, but do not cuddle him, because only the test of fire makes fine steel.</br>
<br>Let him have the courage to be impatient.</br>
<br>Let him have the patience to be brave.</br>
<br>Teach him always to have sublime faith in himself
because then he will have sublime faith in mankind. <blockquote></blockquote>
<br>I take this opportunity to thank you once again
we wish we continue to have your guidance and support our vision of </br>
<br><b>Providing quality education to all children“</b> </br>
<br>Thanks and regards,</br>
<br>Ritesh Mishra</br>
<br>Grade 3, Ahilya Devi Holkar English Medium School, Aundh,Pune </br>Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-42414453547332939432009-10-13T23:16:00.004+05:302009-10-13T23:50:25.946+05:30Ahmedabad Retreat - Pre Retreat Reflections<div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 26pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We at Teach </span><span style="color: cyan;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">India are going for a retreat at Ahmedabad - Gandhi's Ashram to</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: italic; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">reconnect and reaffirm our commitment to Teach For India’s mission and core values.</span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Part 1: Reflecting on our first term as teachers</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #548dd4; font-size: 16pt;">We will be starting the retreat with small group discussions where we will share our experiences about the last 5 months. Few reflection questions and their answers !<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 16pt;">(but then I very well understand and appreciate that whatever TFI does must be well thought plan ). Though it sometimes is unconvincing! ;)<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold;">Part 2: The Gandhian philosophy</span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 16pt;"> I </span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 16pt;">always had a feeling we complain a lot and do nothing about complains we have .</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 16pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><b>However the change begins with self .If we want the change to happen we need to change ourselves .Our</b></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>effort</b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>and </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b> </b></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>actions need to be aligned to the desired change</b></span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> . </span></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-family: Candara, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b><br />
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<br><b>Some Snap shots from the class!</b></br>
<br>Location: Ahilya Devi Holkar English Medium School</br>
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<br><b> I. <b>Concentration Supreme<i></i></b> </b></br>
<br>These two might not be the toppers,but their Concentration and involvement in the TEST is so Exemplary, Mind you "Bhaiya is actually in the class and they are doing it outside!</br>
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<br>Shivani Kharde :: Achievements: Not afraid, Listens, Talks Softly,</br>
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<br>Shreyas Warangakar ::Achievments: Best Handwrit,Most Hardworking ,Good attendance
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<br><b> II. <b>Defying the Odds<i></i></b> </b></br>
<br>Someone said "You have got a difficult class - Kids FIGHT they Do not learn, they r not smart."I don't want to reply back,I just want them to see these Pictures!;)</br>
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<br>Arbaaz: Taking the Lead to Explain the SSC text to Swati,Vedant and Khritk(in order)</br>
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<br>Komolika in charge to churn in concepts in science discussion class! To Naynsee, Chaitrali and Mansi.</br>
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<br>Concentrating and discussing on the Contents on the Green Board ;-) Rahul, Sandeep, Ravi, Aman</br>
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<br>Oh,Just Love it! Everyone diving into the books for the Big Goal ;-> On group 4,Nupur ,Sunny, Hrisikesh !!</br>
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<br><b>Hope You Enjoyed the Snapshots.</b></br>
<br><b>Its Diwali break for us,Kids need to study for their first term!</b></br>
<br><b>Bye till Next,Thanks for reading! </b></br></blockquote>
Riteshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12809417398963210935noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8518334338369879852.post-29561544462319175592009-10-09T00:47:00.001+05:302009-10-09T00:52:21.729+05:30TFI Fellowship : As a teacher : Month 4<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 115%;">September 2009. Memoirs from the Manual Diary!<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br />
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</div></div><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal;">Hey ,have you ever learnt the decimals and their practical implications in Grade 3 . " <o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal;">Prathmesh " says if we want 1000 pieces of " an apple ", It would become a " CHurmure type powder thing " - so it would mean a decimal number is something like that . <o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal;">My o My in Engineering My " Mechanical operations " Mam , while teaching attrition - where partical size reduces to a 1000th or more ;)) said the same thing !<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">3. </span><span style="color: red; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal;">Statistics <o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-weight: normal;">Reading a Given text , Finding Data , Documenting it in different froms and then finding out required information… </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;">They are doing Classical Statistics ..and their avg age is 8 !!! ;--></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 20pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">Dwelling more on classical statistics : Sunny says if we have to find number of dolls wearing Red frocks ,instead of using a "Table Document " we may instead make a "Picture " -it is easy to locate and understand .... Sunny ,I don know , but i am sure ..We need Something beyond BLOOMS for u ;)..he needs pie charts and bar graphs now ... kids and statistics :)<o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Monotype Corsiva'; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><div style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid windowtext .75pt; mso-padding-alt: 0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; padding: 0in;"><br />
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</div><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683739313&ref=mf"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Ritesh Mishra</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">What makes u sad , at the end of an Excelllent day of teaching is .. the apathy of the parents towards "Potential of their kids "...How can they let the kids carry the independent sheets, to the tution teacher . !! and they phone saying - as Aditya padhai ker reha hain na.??... ridiculous .. i am miffed and gone red with raze ... ;(</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><form id="add_comment" name="add_comment"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #777777; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683739313&v=feed&story_fbid=138195813579&ref=mf" style="cursor: pointer;"><span style="min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #777777;">September 24 at 10:37pm</span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">·</span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <label class="comment_link" onclick="return run_now(this, function() {return fc_expand(this);});" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: text-bottom;" title="Click here to leave a comment"> <span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Comment</span> </label> <span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">·</span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span id="like_link_1383719516_138195813579_id_4ace2d1d670264fa58db2"></span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683739313&ref=profile" style="cursor: pointer;" title="Click here to like this item"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Like</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #ECEFF5; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">dont u realise tat kids r forced 2 make their parents dreamz come true n not their own ... tats the world today ....<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #ECEFF5; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">mate , we r not talking about kids like we were....these kids have to have an accelerated learning .because they have so many soci-economic challenges .. they r not the mainstream ..they have to be specially inclined and parental behaviour has to be exemplary for "THE CHANGE " to happen..it is not done !! ;-(<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: #ECEFF5; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">hmmm ... i forgot tat ... i guess u must educate their parents also not 2 put 2 much pressure on the kids ...<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</div><h3 style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683739313&ref=mf"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Ritesh Mishra</span></a></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;">They say . System corrupts u . But after interacting with School principals of the Partner schools . they myth shattered. People always want to change .Change for good .Its just that they are not able to find the right path and the right partner in path to change !!</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></h3><form id="add_comment" name="add_comment"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #777777; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683739313&v=feed&story_fbid=163103626814&ref=mf" style="cursor: pointer;"><span style="min-height: 16px;"><span style="color: #777777;">September 15 at 11:57pm</span></span></a></span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">·</span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <label class="comment_link" onclick="return run_now(this, function() {return fc_expand(this);});" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: text-bottom;" title="Click here to leave a comment"> <span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Comment</span> </label> <span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">·</span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span id="like_link_1978917260_163103626814_id_4ace2d3f20cbf745de058"></span></span><span style="color: #999999; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=683739313&ref=profile" style="cursor: pointer;" title="Click here to like this item"><span style="color: #3b5998;">Like</span></a></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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