A study conducted by non-governmental organisation BOSCO Mane and the Azim Premji University on the status of implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act in the city revealed that collecting fee for extra curricular activities is something that many schools indulge in. Worse still, 60 per cent of the government schools surveyed too admitted that they collect this additional fee.
Findings of the study, covering a sample size of 70 schools, 600 teachers and 14,000 students in Bengaluru, were revealed on Tuesday.
About 85 per cent of the schools also said there is some form of punishment meted out to children. Of these, nearly 45 per cent of the schools confessed to ‘hitting’ the students as punishment. The rest said they made students write ‘imposition’.
Another area under the RTE Act covered by the study was of teachers taking private tuitions. Teachers in nearly half the private, unaided schools surveyed said they take tuitions, while about five per cent of government school teachers too give private tuitions.
While children with disabilities/special needs have been enrolled in over 80 per cent of the government schools under the Act, such students received education beyond 14 years of age only in 10 per cent of government schools.
