My Observation on 'Special' Children - Part 2

In conjunction to my last blog, titled as my observation on ‘special’ children, here’s what I personally feel and simultaneously, offer you my lenses to analyze both situations and comment on how right it is to treat children, based on such baseless reasons. This is when a special school, MBCN i.e. Mata Bhagwanti Chadha Niketan came up with its helping hand.

I am not here to pass judgement; the only matter of concern is that what if a special school like MBCN has not enrolled the child, what have been the scenario? Do schools take admissions based on caste, creed, religion and considering how well of a child’s parents is. Well, to my understanding this is the last thing that can happen with a child and so as the guardian. The both of them are likely to get affected in the long term; the student would surely feel the difference now.

After all it’s about his career which cannot be compromised with in any way. Just because a student has some verbal concerns, school faculty is no one to say that he should be enrolled in mentally retarded school. If at one point of time, i agree to what’s being advised, let’s just make it very clear that autism is not a severe concern, based on which a child can be discriminated from society. It just that the child needs some to be taught in a specific way in comparison to the counterparts and this problem can be recovered, if the child is given apt treatment. Correction, it’s not treatment, its care. And that’s what a child needs from school.

I have not brought up both of these cases to favor a home for mentally challenged or show agony against any schools, but yes, i would make a special request that no child should be discriminated or favored based on from which family he belongs to. Stop this social plague, it’s likely to ruin our future generation.

My Observation on 'Special' Children - Part 1

I am Shruti, working as a financial consultant with a private based firm in Delhi. Follow up of my blog will present before two different cases:

Case (1)

My boss’s child; around 9 years is though sweet, is a classic exemplar of the aristocratic society. For the reason that he belongs to a well-off family, his father can afford worldly luxuries for him. Though he is nine, but is super sensitive. I have seen him, when he was only four. He would come to office and every single time he came, there was something that I found strange about him. Every time, i would think that there’s something missing. He was never one of the chubby and loud child, which was though hard to digest, atleast for me. I would think, does he have problems or he is just like that. He would keep staring at one direction and won’t cry much. At times, he would get very high, but now with change in time, things have had changed. Not much…to put it aptly. Later when his parents realized it, he was taken to doctors. He would get irritated with people around him. So, he was asked to enroll in a school, where he can be made sit with not more than 15 children. For the reason that he belong to a well off family, his father could make it. A separate section was opened for him, which is a big thing.

Case (2)

My friend’s daughter, who is just five, is as sweet as an angel, but she stammers and has some verbal concerns. When my friend filled form for her admission and took her for an interview, the reaction from schools of repute came to her as surprise. No school principal was ready to enroll her in school, saying she is not fit or won’t be able to adapt to the school environment. The basic idea was that she won’t be able to cope up. The reason being what…she stammers! Half the school principals ended up saying that she needs a special school for her.

Well, a lot more to say…but have saved it for my next post.