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Why Coaching Classes Kill


Expectations are high. Students are ranked according to their performance by the coaching institutes. Parents – through phone calls or personal visits – keep track of their progress. “Sometimes parents call and even before they ask how you are, they ask about your rank,” says another student, Debjyoti Sen, also form Bengal.
On April 28, 17-year-old Kriti Tripathi jumped to death from a five-storey building in Kota, leaving a suicide note with a plea to the government to shut coaching institutes as soon as possible. Hers is the fifth suicide by a Kota coaching student this year.
Every year millions of students are asked to follow the blind practice of attending tuitions, but to find a better future, students have to face a bitter present. According to the National Sample Survey Organisation, around 7.1 crore Indian students attend some form of private coaching and 10 to 11 per cent of a family’s budget is eaten up by such tuitions. The private coaching industry is bigger than $ 40 billion, which is about the state GDP of Odisha.

To get rid of this evil system, alternative signalling mechanisms must be explored and considered. Many elite universities around the globe often select students on the basis of their overall intelligence and performance in schools. For many universities, exams don’t determine their selection and might act as a process to eliminate non-serious applicants. Selection occurs through a meticulous process of considering several factors like grades, recommendations, interviews, motivation, extra-curricular activities, etc. This involves students to attend regular schools engaging with peers, history, art, poetry, science, mathematics, debating and basketball. If such alternative systems are considered, there is little that coaching institutions can do to terminate creativity of children. The other option is for coaching instituted to turn themselves into good schools, which reminds us that we do need more good schools.

In conclusion, coaching centers increase the pressure that students face to get the "top rank" exponentially which emotionally and mentally traumatize a student's childhood. This unnecessary and superficially huge pressure is condemned by the education council of India. 

 (Opinionated Editorial)
-The Hindu
CRESI 




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