Children’s failure in school
2021
Children’s failure in school
- A.
suggests that children from deprived backgrounds are not capable of learning.
- B.
indicates that school has not been able to cater to the needs and interests of these children.
- C.
proves that these children have genetic birth defects and hence should be pulled out from school.
- D.
signifies that parents have not been able to support their children to learn.
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: B
Concept
Inclusive-education philosophy (as reflected in the NCF and NCERT pedagogy texts) rejects the “deficit model”, which locates the cause of a child’s school failure inside the child, their genes, or their family. Instead, it holds that when a child fails, the failure signals a gap between what the school provides — its curriculum, teaching methods, and materials — and what that child actually needs to learn.
Application
Here, the responsibility for the failure sits with the school's own system — its curriculum and teaching methods have not adjusted to reach this set of learners — not with the learner, their genes, or their family.
Cross-check / Contrast
Deprived background, incapable of learning — wrongly equates disadvantage with a fixed inability to learn.
Genetic birth defects, should be pulled out of school — wrongly escalates ordinary school failure to a medical diagnosis and prescribes exclusion, which inclusive education forbids.
Parents unable to support learning — wrongly moves the responsibility onto the family and away from the school.
So the standard inclusive-pedagogy position — confirmed by the official CTET January 2021 Paper II answer key — is that school failure points to gaps in the school's own provision for the learner, not to a fault within the learner, their genetics, or their family.