Eye for accountability | The Indian Express

Eye for accountability | The Indian Express

Written by Akshay Marathe |Updated: July 11, 2019 5:30:55 am

Marathe is a member of Delhi government’s Dialogue & Development Commission (DDC) Task force on school education

Eye for accountability

CCTVs in classrooms will empower parents, improve government schools.

Although the infrastructure upgrade has lifted spirits of parents and teachers alike, what has truly turned schools around is the involvement of parents in the management of schools. Archive

The Arvind Kejriwal government’s CCTVs in classrooms project was the subject of two pieces published in The Indian Express on July 8, including the editorial, ‘Classroom and eye’. Both spoke of the lofty ideals of education and how live streaming of restricted CCTV footage from classrooms to parents is antithetical to them. This reflects a deep disconnect between those who hold this view and the reality of the country’s government schools.