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Children's rights in the kindergarten

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Children's rights in the kindergarten
Muhammad Aminuzzaman

Up until 1990, the picture in primary schools was almost the same all over Bangladesh.

But there is now a new educational system in the private educational sector. This is known as the "kindergarten system".

Presently, there are many kindergarten institutions in Dhaka city. It competes with and to some extent has replaced the "primary school" system found in the public school sector.

Middle class Parents are generally very concerned and pay attention to their children's education. Nowadays they abhor Bengali medium primary schools.

The environment is changing, most parents are facing the language problem (English) in their working life and will not like their children to go through the same problem. Hence they like the kindergarten education system which is modeled along the English medium schools.

Most kindergartens in old Dhaka are in residential buildings. They have no play grounds, library or common room.

They have three to four classrooms. Each classroom is between 100 to 120 square feet and normally accommodates 20 to 25 pupils. The parents' waiting place is usually the verandah or open place outside the school building.

In nursery, play group, & kg 1 every class student read all most 8 subject which looks like a very good method. There are no common text books and syllabus for all kindergarten. Most of the English books are from India.

School time is around two to three hours. During this time the kids are busy learning how to read. In order to keep the kids interested in the task at hand, the parents normally stay with them, albeit in a different room where they can be seen.

Most parents are not used to this type of education so they often hire private tutors even at this early stage.

With eight subjects at school, coaching and lots of homework, kids do not have enough time for play throughout the day.

Because they are preoccupied with their children's future, the parents tend to forget that the toddlers probably need a different environment in which to develop their minds.

However, one problem that the kindergartens are facing is that the city planners did not provide for them in their planning for residential, transport and other facilities.

More importantly, the planners have not reconciled public and private sector education. Parents would rather send their children to the latter and in any case, there does not seem to be any planned new schools to cope with the expected higher numbers of kids.

Parents like to admit the kids in a local area for avoid the traffic jam and monthly fee is under their capacity. So they bound to choose those type of kindergarten.

Moreover, middle class can't choose higher facilities kindergarten as their economy condition.

Parents, government, and the kindergartens appear to have different plans for the next generation. Every one is anxious about the future of the kids in their own way but all parties seem to be ignoring the present.

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Photo : Abir Abdullah/ Drik ( Evicted slum dweller)

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