Dear Alumni,
A successful alumni meet was organised on 26th dec at jnv madhubani in coordination with with school administration. In total 9 alumni attended it including first two batches.
There were free interactions with students and teachers.
Our inclination towards welfare of school has been well appreciated.
Books approx. Rs 7 000, was donated on behalf of AAMNA. And similar help will be done in future on regular basis if students too show positive attitude, as was said by us.
Career needs were addressed.
I personally talked to few students and Principal also.
After whole day interaction with students, and long conversation with Principal ( with me too) and, detail anlysis of interpretation of alumni who attended there , I have drawn few conclusions, towards which I would like to draw your attention also.
In future we need to work on this.
1) poor teacher – students interaction :
— apathy amongst teachers for academics
— disrespect of teachers by students
2) very low academic activities :
— students are just maintaining their status quo in school.
— drop out rate after 10th is alarming. only 2boys and 13 boys in 12th and hardly 20 in 11th.
— changed exam pattern of IIT was held responsible for it by teachers and students. But study pattern and commitment from students are lacking. They are just waiting to go out , past 10th for a coaching.
3)DISCIPLINE :
— total crash of discipline in hostels and school over all.
— disobeying is common, rather a rare phenomenon.
— daily walk-out of students outside campus ( guardians are promoting it, and administration has no control) — any body can go out on his own
4) SPORTS : almost nil sports and ground activities.
It is rare now to see students and / or teachers on the ground Neither in PT time nor in evening.
Parents and students together have made sports futile as ” it hampers study !!!” alas !!
cultural participation and house competition has become infrequent.
So many other things to observe.
Good thing for us — teachers are taking enthusiasm in our participation.
Students have grown up feeling, in general, that alumni would guide us properly. May be, if interaction and esteem improves academics would improve too.
Therefore we need to channelize young energies into some interesting, interactive and creative activities. few alumni has given me ideas of forming small clubs like book club, literary club, sports club, nature club and like that. It may inculcate a sense of responsibility and competitiveness. thought process evolves in the long run.
I am looking into its feasibility in coordination with some active alumni who are running such clubs. once detail programme comes to me I shall discuss in detail.
Till then I would invite few more ideas for school welfare.
Moreover, guardians do need proper counseling. I appeal to all alumni to start counseling on individual basis, who so ever are in their vicinity ( guardian ).
Discipline should start flowing from guardians. Frequent visit to school, providing extra eatables, consumables and such items increases discrimination. this has to be discouraged strongly.
Materials provided in the school are of standard quality and, in many sectors it is better than older days. So, there is no point in allowing guardians to provide something externally.
Older batches requires frequent visit there, I feel. Few more of us have already promised me, to visit within 2 – 3 months.
Thanx for patient reading.
Dr. Prashant
President
AAMNA