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| Tribal students discriminated lot in schools: report | | | New Delhi | Sep 23
Often used as "servants" by their own teachers and criticised for the clothes they wear and the dialect they speak, the tribal students are a discriminated lot in schools, affecting their education, according to a report by the NCERT.
"Discrimination is a major root cause for social exclusion of SC/ST students. Tribal children are used as servants by high caste teachers," the report on 'Empowerment and Upliftment of ST girls through Action Research' said.
There is "institutionalised discrimination" against these children which alienates them from school and results in high level of child labour, the report prepared by NCERT's department of Women's Studies said.
Discrimination on the basis of caste, class, tribe and gender characterises social relations between school personnel, teachers and high caste children on one hand and SC/ST children on the other in schools and classrooms, it said.
The report gives examples of how the tribal students face discrimination in schools.
Teachers in Madhya Pradesh feel that teaching "Korku" children is equivalent of "teaching cows". Similarly in Bihar, teachers' belief about "Mushar" children is that they are not just interested in education and that they do not have any tension in life.
Such presumptions set effective limits in the teaching efforts of teachers, it said.
"Levels of prejudice, hostility and indifference to dalit and tribal cultural traits and value system are high. Studies have shown that teachers perceive dalit and adivasi children in a negative light, seeing them as unclean, dishonest, lazy, ill-mannered etc," it said.
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