Kolkata The decision of the CBSE to make Class X board examinations optional from 2010 may have made students a happy lot, schools fear over coping with the sweeping change in the examination pattern from the ensuing academic session. Most of the school principals are of the opinion that either the Class X examination should be made compulsory or be scrapped. Making it optional, they feel, will complicate the situation even as an attempt has been made to make the system stress-free.
Schools argue that making the examination optional is not going to serve any purpose and would increase the complexity for the school administration to deal with two different set of students —- one who will be taking the examination and other who will opt out of it.
“Due to the tough competition, very few parents will allow their children to opt out of the Class X examination. Today, I met five parents who are unwilling to opt out of examinations and asked me not to allow the students to do so,” said Malini Bhagat, principal of Mahadevi Birla for Girls Higher Secondary School.
Sharmila Bose, principal of Birla High School for Girls, argued that if would be a better decision to scrap the Class X exams altogether. “I don’t think that the students required to be tested twice both at the class X level and Class XII level and keeping an option of opting out increases confusion,” said Bose.
“We will give more stress on school examination,” said Anandita Chaterjee, principal of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
Principals of a number of city schools said that no official circular has reached them and whatever information they have got is from the newspapers and media reports.
Even officials at the Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan, the administrative unit of 55 Kendriya Vidyalayas in the state, point out that they are not aware of any circular of the examination system.
Schools argue that making the examination optional is not going to serve any purpose and would increase the complexity for the school administration to deal with two different set of students —- one who will be taking the examination and other who will opt out of it.
“Due to the tough competition, very few parents will allow their children to opt out of the Class X examination. Today, I met five parents who are unwilling to opt out of examinations and asked me not to allow the students to do so,” said Malini Bhagat, principal of Mahadevi Birla for Girls Higher Secondary School.
Sharmila Bose, principal of Birla High School for Girls, argued that if would be a better decision to scrap the Class X exams altogether. “I don’t think that the students required to be tested twice both at the class X level and Class XII level and keeping an option of opting out increases confusion,” said Bose.
“We will give more stress on school examination,” said Anandita Chaterjee, principal of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan.
Principals of a number of city schools said that no official circular has reached them and whatever information they have got is from the newspapers and media reports.
Even officials at the Kendriya Vidyalay Sangathan, the administrative unit of 55 Kendriya Vidyalayas in the state, point out that they are not aware of any circular of the examination system.
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