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<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://science.thewire.in/education/its-time-we-stop-blaming-school-children-for-their-weaknesses/">click here</a> to read more.&nbsp;</p>
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It’s Time We Stop Blaming School Children for Their Supposed Weaknesses -Gopal Midha

-TheWire.in Meena was walking back from gym in her pink shorts when a gang of hoodlums on bikes passed lewd comments at her. She reached home and cried. Her parents listened to her hurt and then asked her to dress “more appropriately”. Rahim scored poorly once again in math and the teacher remarked, “I know this is your best effort, why don’t you take Arts after tenth?” Later, in the staff room, feeling sad, he explained Rahim’s scores by how having no ‘educated’ parents makes all the difference to a child’s grades. “Blame the victim” is the thinking inherent in both cases above. This kind of ‘deficit thinking’ or pointing to the victim as deficient and thereby the cause of her own suffering is so widespread that it is normal. Especially after COVID-19, I hear school teachers and principals implicitly blaming children for hyperactivity and reduced attention span. Even during research, I often catch myself formulating a research question such that it frames the teachers as responsible for their struggles or claims arrogantly that I am ‘giving voice’ to my respondents. Deficit thinking side tracks real issues. Instead of highlighting more potent factors (in Rahim’s case – rushed schooling, educational indifference to mental health, or poor quality mid-day meals), we first blame and then try to ‘fix’ the victim for their supposed ‘deficiency’. In a somewhat similar case as the chilling instance of blaming Nirbhaya for getting raped, educators fall into the trap of blaming the child as the implicit cause of her/his failure. Please click here to read more.