Safeguarding Children’s Rights: The Legal Battle Against Coaching Mafias
- IJLLR Journal
- Apr 17
- 2 min read
Devadarshini.S, B.A. LL.B., Chennai Dr. Ambedkar Govrnment Law College, Pudupakkam
ABSTRACT
The children are the most vulnerable demographic section in the world as they depend on another person for their development. The educational stakeholders find many issues in the present pedagogy and are in dilemma about equality in quality education. Firstly, the issue is on ensuring the access for all to quality education in spite of variations in economic, ethnic, migrant, linguistic and other sociological backgrounds. Secondly, It is questioned whether the present curriculum and pedagogy develops cognitive, emotional, economic and life skills. The educationists around the world debate on whether the education system and parents destroy the child's mental health. More specifically, commercialization of education by many private sectors and institutions makes the psycho-socio pathetic life. The coaching class stands as the biggest example for those issues aforementioned.
Before every academic year starts we will come across dashing colourful advertisements containing gloomy faces of toppers with the skyrocketing prices for courses. But the reality hits as 26 students found dead killing themselves in Kota, coaching Hub of India and the numbers kept increases. The coaching centres formed as a corroborative to the education has become business models.
This article mainly throws the limelight on the problems and the challenges of today's education. Furthermore, the article meets with the solutions for the specified problems of the educational system. We used various data in former research papers, books and different surveys on children's education. We have noticed the comparative law of different countries like the US, Finland, Germany, New Zealand which ranks the top in global educational surveys to India and noted the difference in the system of education.
Keywords: Education, Coaching centres, equality, mental health, false advertising, FOMO, Suicides.
