Saved by the Pandemic - young hearts and minds

 CBSE, CISCE scrap Class XII exams after review ... (June 2021)

Thousands of young hearts and minds - required perforce, in an annual ritual to surrender their unique, capable, curious, and wondrous learning capabilities to the senseless guillotine of the board examinations - have been spared. Ironically, saved by the pandemic. Aren’t we all complicit in this degenerate annual ritual? Some more than others.

For want of an imagination that celebrates human and humane learning, a convenient examination system systematically enervates and obfuscates learners from exploring opportunities to engage with possibilities and growth.

Offering countervailing perspectives, does the pandemic allow us to see, how what is taken for granted about gate-keeping practice and epistemology, invites bad actors to exploit often ignored vulnerabilities?