A Study of Slum Children
Children living in informal settlements must grow up fast: they are often the informal solution for their families struggling to deal with daily problems involving infrastructure access and livelihoods. Children too often fetch water, watch over younger siblings and sick household members, and step into the role of productive contributors to help the household make ends meet. Saddled with these responsibilities, they must often limit or forego their schooling, cutting short their future educational potential and the economic and social opportunities, as well as skills, that education affords. This vicious cycle of poverty is one of the biggest issues in development, and necessitates significant creativity to problem solving.
In Uttar Pradesh, overcrowded classrooms and high rates of teacher absenteeism have led to the flight of most middle class and wealthy families to private schools. Many are calling the integrated classroom "revolutionary," citing the potential to influence an entirely new direction for the country. Several schools are already devising strategies to avoid the quota, but this law does hold extraordinary potential, despite significant implementation challenges such as the difference in educational levels between low-income and high-income schools.
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