RESOLUTION
PASSED IN THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING OF
THE STUDENTS’
WELFARE ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS, (SWAP), COIMBATORE
ON 11.03.2016
It is hereby resolved unanimously
to raise the following demands before all organizations concerned with
Education, before the All India Meeting of AIPWA to be held at New Delhi and
before all political parties and to call upon the parents in Tamil Nadu to
consider casting their votes to those parties which declare their support for
these issues in their manifestoes:
1) To enforce ‘Free and Compulsory
Education to all children from the age of 6 to 14” as envisaged in Article 21A
of the Constitution of India
[21A. Right to
education.—The State shall provide free and compulsory education to all
children of the age of six to fourteen years in such manner as the State may,
by law, determine. ]
without any
dilution because, unless it is made free for all children, there will be
discrimination in the amount paid as reimbursement between different children
of different areas and different schools which is against the fundamental right
to equality and also by not providing free education to all children, the
Fundamental Right to Free Education is not fulfilled.
2)
Until the above is fulfilled, to
ensure that every State has a Fee determination committee, under an Act of the
Legislature, which will cover all private schools, and the parents are also
heard before the fixing of the fees, ensure that the fixed fees alone is
collected and bring all types of syllabus / schools under the control of the
Chief Educational Officers of each District to enable complaint redressal of
all school parents with regard to the above matter.
3)
Make rules to enable admission of
children into schools on ‘Neighborhood school’ concept, through single window
system.
4)
To strive to amend Article 21A of the
Constitution by making it applicable for children from the age of ‘4 to 18’,
considering the change in circumstances.
5)
Introduce uniform syllabus for all
schools within each state immediately and for the entire Nation in a phased
manner.
6)
Provide education up-to secondary
level through mother tongue.
7)
Ban use of any additional books in
schools, apart from the prescribed syllabus and prescribe maximum weight for
school bags (including lunch bags)
8)
Enact legislation on educational
qualification, pay and allowances and conditions of service for teaching and
non-teaching staff in all private schools.
9)
Make PTA compulsory in all
schools. PTA to be formed by method of
election and not selection.
10)
Abolish the Board of Matriculation
Schools in Tamil Nadu consequent upon the introduction of Samacheer Kalvi
(Uniform Sylabus).
