{"id":1270,"date":"2014-09-18T11:26:42","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2014-09-18T11:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T11:32:38","slug":"this-school-in-kerala-doesnt-have-bags-that-break-your-childs-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"This school in Kerala doesn’t have bags that break your child’s back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Government LPS Tholikkode in Punalur, has already earned the title of a bag-less school as students don\u2019t have to carry their textbooks to school.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kollam:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vishnu, Arya, Augustine, Syam and their friends are more than happy to go to school every day as they are the luckiest of school-goers in their locality. Their school does not put the \u201cburden\u201d of learning on their backs!<\/p>\n

The Govt LPS Tholikkode in Punalur, has already earned the title of a bag-less school as students don\u2019t have to carry their textbooks to school. The kids have two set of books. One, for the school, and the other,\u00a0 for studies at home. \u201cOne set is given for free by the Government and the other is contributed by the PTA. For scribbling notes, 40-page books without hard covers are given, that too according to the units in an academic year,\u201d said K.G.Abraham, Headmaster. The students are also given weightless cloth bags to carry their pens, pencils and notebooks.<\/p>\n

The school has 349 students including those from pre-primary classes. The PTA received the honour for the best association of its kind in Kollam last year. \u201cWe are on our way to setting up\u00a0\u00a0 cupboards in each classroom for which we will get Rs 3 lakh from the MP\u2019s fund. The parents are happy to see their children walking free to schools,\u201d said V.Rajan Pillai, PTA president.<\/p>\n

The PTA also is special in that it is the first association in the State which assembles close to students\u2019 houses so as to ensure maximum parent participation. The students are also provided\u00a0 filtered water and free meals at school. The school also teaches the basics of farming. Fifty cents of land near the school was donated by a former student for this purpose. Bananas cultivated here contributed to the side dishes of \u2018Onam sadya\u2019 at the school. The excess bananas from the farm were sold off at the local market.<\/p>\n

The school which was set up in 1956, has also trained its 11 teachers to identify symptoms of diseases among students under the \u2018disease-free childhood\u2019 programme. The headmaster says: \u201cIt\u2019s the class teacher who understands the child far better than the parents\u201d.<\/p>\n

source: http:\/\/www.deccanchronicle.com \/ Deccan Chronicle \/ Home> Nation> Education \/ DC \/ Sham Mohammed \/ September 18th, 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kollam:\u00a0 Vishnu, Arya, Augustine, Syam and their friends are more than happy to go to school every day as they are the luckiest of school-goers in their locality. Their school does not put the \u201cburden\u201d of learning on their backs! The Govt LPS Tholikkode in Punalur, has already earned the title of a bag-less school … Continue reading This school in Kerala doesn’t have bags that break your child’s back<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1281,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thiruvananthapuramfirst.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}