TN makes headway in meeting RTE indicators

CHENNAI: It is important to help parents and
teachers understand the learning goals well
so they can work together to enable children
to achieve these goals.

"The goals need to be
within the reach of a majority of all children
enrolled in Class 1," she said.
The state, however, has made a slight
improvement when it comes to meeting
other RTE indicators when it comes to
infrastructure and meeting the pupil-teacher
ratio and classroom-teacher ratio norms.
The number of schools that have the required
number of toilets has increased, but the
number that meets the drinking water
requirement has gone down compared to last
year. Tamil Nadu has always done well in
terms of enrolment rates.
The number of government school students
attending private tuitions has been going
down steadily since 2009; this year there has
been a sharp drop in the number of children
in private schools joining tuitions.
Overall, the report found that 13.1% of
students in rural parts take tuitions to
improve their academic performance.
Teachers in government and aided schools in
the state are banned from taking private
tuitions, and the state recently issued a stern
warning to those who continued to do it.
Volunteers visited 553 schools in rural parts
of the state to conduct the survey.