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| d!abolic |
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| quote: | AN Indian teenager killed herself after receiving a mobile phone text message saying she had failed her school leaving exams, although she had actually passed, a report said today.
The 17-year-old girl hanged herself yesterday morning after getting the SMS giving her the wrong information, the Hindustan Times reported.
The girl's parents had been out attending yoga classes with their second daughter when the girl committed suicide in the central Indian town of Indore, the report said.
Results of the school-leaving exams of over 250,000 students began being announced yesterday, with cellphone companies for a small fee offering to provide results via SMS to those students giving their roll numbers.
It was uncertain whether the company was at fault for sending the incorrect message or whether the girl had made a mistake in typing down her roll number, the report said.
Pressure from parents and peers on students to score high marks in the exams is immense and each year dozens across the country kill themselves when they find they have failed.
Schools have now begun offering counselling for depressed and nervous teenagers, while the Central Board of Secondary Education, which conducts the exam, set up an e-counselling helpline in March.
The department's director G. Balasubramanian said the centre has been receiving 50-60 calls a day, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
"This is our way of reaching out to the students and telling them that we care. It is our duty to address the problems of students," he told the news agency.
Of the 250,000 results announced yesterday, it was found that girls, who achieved a pass rate of 94 per cent, had done better than boys, who could only muster a pass rate of 88 per cent, the report said. |
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| starsearcher |
Lol...that's so stupid - poor child...
| quote: | | The girl's parents had been out attending yoga classes with their second daughter when the girl committed suicide in the central Indian town of Indore, the report said. |
That sounds so cliche and fabricated lol...Yoga classes lol |
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| d!abolic |
| quote: | Originally posted by starsearcher
Lol...that's so stupid - poor child...
That sounds so cliche and fabricated lol...Yoga classes lol |
LMFAO! "We were in the park with our youngest daughter, collecting flowers and singing Kumbaya" :D |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by starsearcher
That sounds so cliche and fabricated lol...Yoga classes lol |
Another case of Truth being stranger than fiction...:eyes: |
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| starsearcher |
The truth though is that i actually know quite a few people that are so pressured by their parents in terms of grades and such that it's stupid and crazy :whip:
It's such a shame cause that really is a real problem - then these kids grow up to be socially isolated no idea how to communicate with anyone and grow to have many more emotional problems... |
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| disko-kandi |
| quote: | Originally posted by starsearcher
The truth though is that i actually know quite a few people that are so pressured by their parents in terms of grades and such that it's stupid and crazy :whip:
It's such a shame cause that really is a real problem - then these kids grow up to be socially isolated no idea how to communicate with anyone and are have many more emotional problems... |
this is especially the case with asian families. during my time at UBC we had several cases of suicide; one even jumped out of the resident tower and killed himself in front of the entrance after receiving his final marks ...just before the summer began ... sad, but true. :( |
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| nycionx |
| the parents fault for sure. i believe they put too much pressure on her, and that if she failed they would like punish her or something....sooo she punished herself. thats sad...really sad. as if school school is more important than life :rolleyes: |
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| DJ El Kay Dee |
| been there, almost done that, but still alive |
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| disko-kandi |
achievement/ encouragement - fine, but within the boundaries of the student's capabilities.
over-achievement and the pure pressure, threat of ..(?) by the parents and the fear by the kids not to disappoint that's a big load to carry! ... noone can learn like that with an open mind!! as if marks are everything! ... i sucked at school (cos i would rather do sports rather than sit inside with my nose in the books!) and was only mediocre at uni, - but the point is that i've still managed to be successful academically, in the end, with a master in laws. ... it seems true pedagogics are an extinct species these days with our schooling system!
if the parents are so in touch with themselves and their environment i.e. yoga ... where does that leave the girl? :o |
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| DJ El Kay Dee |
i would barely pass with the 33% passing mark..then when i moved here, without even opening my book i was scoring in 80s:stongue:
ironic eh |
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| starsearcher |
| quote: | Originally posted by disko-kandi
this is especially the case with asian families. during my time at UBC we had several cases of suicide; one even jumped out of the resident tower and killed himself in front of the entrance after receiving his final marks ...just before the summer began ... sad, but true. :( |
Yeah i was thinking that too...i live in north york with so many asian ppl like that around me -- they really have no life no friends no nothing...they typically play some kind of instrument like a flute cause their parents made them - they don't do any sports, don't excercise, all they do is study study study - the result are those totally weird and completely unsocial ppl -- i even work with some of them...it's pretty sad.
The other day i was talking with a supervisor of mine who is asian as well and he was telling me how him and his little son were getting ready for a test...the son he tells me made 1 mistake....ONE MISTAKE and the guy told him OMG HOW ARE YOU GOING TO WRITE THE TEST, totally freaked...i was shocked...poor kid - it's exactly the same scenario - mind you his dad is a pretty sad case as well it's just too bad he has such tough influence on his son.
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My mom always told me that that's exactly how her parents were with her and she was right (i was being influenced by my grandparents as well). But the difference is that my mom didn't let them influence me after a while and she gave me full autonomy to do what i felt was right...I definitely feel sorry for my mom for the fact she had to go through that but I love the fact that she is the coolest mom in the world when it comes to me. I will definitely raise my child following her example :thepirate |
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| disko-kandi |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ El Kay Dee
i would barely pass with the 33% passing mark..then when i moved here, without even opening my book i was scoring in 80s:stongue:
ironic eh |
hahaha!! yea i skipped grade 4 when i came over here and when i went back to germany in grade 7, i had to move back 2 years!!! :whip: :( |
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