Question

Remember your first day at school? How did you feel? Who became your first friend? How did your first day go? Listen to your friend’s experience sitting next to you. We all come to school, but so many children in our country do not go to school for many reasons. Form a group of four-five and discuss the following:

a) Reasons why these children do not go to school.

b) What remedial measure can be taken to make them come to school?

c) What can you do for these children?

Answer 1

a) 1. They are poor. 

2. They do not have enough food to eat. 

3. They help their parents by working. 

4. They are not healthy. 

5. They live in slums. 

6. Schools are far away from their homes. 

7. Their parents are illiterate

b) 1. Provide food, clothes and books free to such children. 

2. Educate their parents. 

3. Create awareness about the benefits of education. 

4. Motivate children to go to school. 

5. Punish people who do not send their children to school. 

6. Implement the laws strictly. 

7. Punish people who employ children (child labour). 

8. Open schools near their localities, 

9. Provide free medical facilities.

C) 1. Persuade them to go to school. 

2. Help them financially. 

3. Give them your books, pens, clothes, etc., 

4. Make friendship with them. 

5. Play with them. 

6. Treat them well.