{"id":2265,"date":"2002-08-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/08\/06\/2002-08-06-nhrc-to-study-burden-on-schoolkids\/"},"modified":"2002-08-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2002-08-06T12:00:00","slug":"2002-08-06-nhrc-to-study-burden-on-schoolkids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2002\/08\/06\/2002-08-06-nhrc-to-study-burden-on-schoolkids\/","title":{"rendered":"NHRC to Study Burden on Schoolkids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/news\/printedition\/270702\/detNAT03.shtml\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 26, 2002: Should corporal punishment be banned in schools? Is the curriculum too much for schoolchildren to bear? Why should children be deprived of the five-day week which their parents enjoy? National Human Rights Commission chairman, Justice (Retired) J. S. Verma, has decided to interact with school-goers at four regional schools run by the National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT). Parents of schoolchildren in the Naraina area of New Delhi filed a petition protesting the long school hours, curriculum load, excessive homework even during vacations and corporal punishment in the name of enforcing discipline. Rajendra Kumar, the Delhi government&#8217;s Director of Education, said despite a total ban on corporal punishment in the capital region&#8217;s schools, reports of cruelty on children kept coming in. &#8220;Teachers need to be trained, made sensitive and more humane towards the needs of children,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE NEW DELHI, INDIA, July 26, 2002: Should corporal punishment be banned in schools? Is the curriculum too,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}