By Antony Renson
This is not an exam result; it is the result of a brutal betrayal and injustice meted out to the students! How many more children must end their lives for your experiments? CBSE is playing with the lives of lakhs of students! Following the release of this year’s CBSE Class 12 exam results, heartbreaking cries of students and parents are being heard across the country. On one side, children are completely shattered by the unbelievably low marks they received. On the other side, parents, driven by social stigma and anxiety about the future, are mentally harassing their children. Beyond all this, whose conscience is not wounded by the news of innocent children ending their lives due to the failures of this system?The root cause of this disaster is the On-Screen Marking (OSM)—a digital evaluation system that CBSE rushed to implement this year. When papers were evaluated via computer screens, diagrams and graphs drawn by students were not scanned properly. The practice of awarding step-marks for Mathematics and Science was completely disrupted in many places. Even brilliant students who cleared competitive entrance exams with flying colors scored unbelievably low marks or failed in the board exams.Who gave you the authority to experiment with the future of lakhs of students without providing the necessary technical infrastructure or proper training for teachers to implement such digital systems? When evaluation was turned into a mere ‘target’ by increasing the daily quota of answer sheets for teachers, why didn’t you realize that what was being lost was the years of hard work put in by these children? The Board easily tells those who doubt their marks to apply for revaluation. But why are they silent about the exorbitant fee charged for it? Why should students pay a penalty for the system’s failure? This is not just a technical glitch; it is an institutional tyranny that is killing the future of an entire generation. How many more children must sacrifice their lives to open the eyes of authorities who view education merely as a business and a laboratory? A humble request to parents:Please understand this gross betrayal by the system. Do not blame or mentally harass your children for low marks. Teach them that life goes on even if they fail an exam. What they need at this stage is not your physical or verbal abuse, but your comforting embrace.We must react against this injustice. CBSE must give a clear explanation for this evaluation scam. The Central Ministry of Education must intervene immediately to make the revaluation process free of cost and to rectify these errors urgently.
