The community troops into the classroom
The Hindu
This Greater Chennai Corporation-run institution in Kottur has an enviable roster of volunteers helping its students with a diversity of after-school programmes
There is a flip side to programmes done for free. Without watchfulness, they can slip into dilettantish efforts, palming gimcrack offerings off on the beneficiaries. The lack of quality can be eloquently explained away: “Amateurs are attempting what professionals themselves often struggle at, so be charitable with your comments!” With criticism headed off in this manner, the giver can stay buoyed up on a do-gooder high, and the farce would continue. When it started an elaborate after-school programme seven years ago, the Greater Chennai Corporation-run Chennai High School in Kottur skirted around this pitfall. It could have conveniently walked the path of mediocrity. No questions would have been asked. After all, the exercise lies outside the curriculum and also the teachers’ line of duty.More Related News