The Perception of Ideal Student based on money based social structure
- 1. The Perception of Ideal Student based on money based social structure By Khandaker Sakib Farhad How we explain about our children as a student is not the issue but how we perceive others is the main factor. When it comes to schooling, nobody really cares about the results of any of the students whether he is first or the last in his school but what everybody really cares about is where he studies and it really means where he studies which means it needs to be a School, College or University of the highest standard, famous and at the center of the country and if those doesnt make the criteria then unfortunately your child is not a good student and if your child is a student of that particular institute then the margin is so high he wont fit all the criteria. Now, how is it we all portray an image of a student in our mind? Subconsciously, it is exactly the same as we see in the movies. That means he needs to be an Engineer or a Doctor, who is the best in every field in his education life, but shy, having an innocent face, who rarely looks at girls. Now, when it comes to reality the students who read in a community school or a rural school are less fortunate in nature who are from poor family background. It becomes very difficult for them to get enrolled in a good school. Even if they are good in their education, they all are trademarked as slum boys or villagers. Nobody actually digs in that deep to find out who is good or bad as we are all under the perception that they are poor and due to that one day or the other they are soon to be dropouts. If not as soon as they get old, they will engage themselves in earning which will evidently make them unable to reach social standards. However, the basic thing the rich parents forget is that most of the good students were the ones who made themselves good students and most of their parents are from villages. To survive in this world, it was always the fact that social smartness is also a part of education, not the formal one which is lacking in their children. But due to struggles they have faced, they make sure to spend all their money to prepare a perfect education plan for their children by spending more money on them and less on themselves. So, due to the expense of money the students get enrolled in good institutes, where education is forced on them ensuring their less involvement in extracurricular activities. We are all under the perception that if a child is from a good school, he is bound to go to a good college and be a doctor or engineer. The thing with good schools is that they have a specific teacher for a specific subject with high pay and the security that if one of the students do bad in their exams their parents will pay everything to make their children good students, but in the regular schools, one teacher has to cover more subjects, more classes with less pay and the uncertainty if he fails a children he might drop his education entirely with no security that any fear can make them concentrate in education entirely. So, when it comes to assessing the results the good students from good schools get less marks in their classes, then the poor students from schools. This makes the rich students inferior in nature due to the family scolding of high expense, then the extrovert nature of poor students as their parents need to make less expense. It becomes natural that the poor students are more adored by their parents than the rich students as being responsible not as a good student whereas most good students face inferiority complex. Due to inferiority complexes, some rich children get more focused but many of them become rebellious after their puberty. But, in most cases the poor students or the rural students remain very focused on the needs of their parents as a whole. No, rich children ever drop out of their school as they know the fact that ultimately everyone will do well from their school, but whenever a poor child finds out he is not moving anywhere with education, he immediately resorts to earning as he knows only the best in his class will succeed otherwise none will. Here comes the change in dynamics as the rich children know from their seniors that their school does well, finally
- 2. most of them make sure to wait till the last 3-6months of their educational exam as in that time their parents will take every necessary steps for ensuring their good results by making sure they follow their seniors educational plan or start coaching to every good teacher, resort to guides, have private tutors and after that most of them fail to get the proper basics as these are mostly result based education where they never resort to finding out the result by themselves as everything is being solved by others. On the other hand the only weapon in a poor students arsenal is the books and no money to get the explanations of all the questions in the books, a teacher who is so busy with so many subjects that he also doesnt have the time to dig deep into a particular issue of each subject. And if the teacher starts providing explanations, it will start a chain which he wont be able to control for no financial benefit, insecurity of wasting his parents money for no reason as even after all this hard work only a mere few ever succeed from their school. Most start thinking only to ensure a passing score for a suitable earning source to remove their parents burden. So, one is thinking about getting good results where everything is in a direct result oriented format, question based answers without the necessity of studying the original materials of the book, and the other only has the book without the other resources to understand. So, most good students focus on answers or sophisticated issues of the book as basics normally are not part of the question pattern in finals and the poor students only have the basics to latch onto as they cant understand the sophisticated questions. So, the rich students are avoiding the basics or the entire book as its not necessary to get good results and the poor students dont want to know much about the basics, as it matters nothing as nothing can actually make them get good results. Hence, from the poor families who are both educated, submissive to the seniors or teachers in other words a bit morally flexible has a slight chance of success which makes them socially smart but a bit less dominant in nature as they are the original good students who turn out to be government officials due to their devotion to understand. But, in case of rich students, their teachers find themselves obligated to bring in good results for their students as they have to ensure a running flow of their income and the reputation of the school which eventually makes anyone resort to any possible means to make a good student out of a rich student. Ultimately, most of the poor students end up as dropouts who follow the same nature of their predecessors by behaving as brutes even after completing a certain portion of formal education only to be a part of the hive to make sure they can survive among all, educated, less educated everywhere which makes them more prone to asking then answering by themselves or study further as the answers also need to be the same to satisfy their masters and exactly as the hive which is his only way to survive. Finally, all the dropout poor students resort to the idea that education has no value but experience has as some of their predecessor heroes gained money even after having less education which they latch onto as their fueling source to happiness that rarely happens. In the case of the rich students, some get good grades and some entirely hope for a miracle as he knows every miracle can be performed by his rich dad ending up with bad results. After completing the schooling with good grades or moderate grades, most rich students normally end up in a more or less decent college either by talent or by connection. So, they get confident that they will do well in education later on which makes most of them rebellious in nature, but unfortunately that extrovert nature dont get noticed by others as they all are under the impression that this child will do well in future and there is the other ones who are from poor schools with excellent result, they are the ones who get more focused on their education with more sincerity, but finds it very difficult to survive among the rich brats as most of them even after being good students are considered as village idiots. For the miracle seeker rich students with poor grades, they know that money can manage anything, so education becomes just a
- 3. promise to keep to their parents as he is destined to spend his fathers money and be the richest man in the world as education is meaningless for financial success. So, the third group resorts to making themselves street smart because a businessman needs to be smart and in most cases breaks all ethical barriers in that stage turning something that no parents or no one wishes to see. However, the rich good grade holders start the same basic formula that he previously followed in his school which is last minute education and the poor good grade holders start their same formula which is do anything to survive. In most cases poor good grade holders do come back pretty strong but some of them also follow the same path of the bad grade rich kids to be street smart and turn out to be the worst possible part of the society, capable of doing anything. However, in most cases, the poor good students get good grades in college, but their parents push so hard which actually breaks their stamina and rich good students normally end up with a decent result in college but much less than their previous accomplishment. Normally, most poor good students and a reasonable portion of rich good students end up in renowned institutes and remaining rich good students and normal students end up in mediocre institutes. But due to the curse of institutional superiority, many of the poor good students at the final stage of their education, resort to taking breaks or finding sources of income rather than focusing on education which makes them end up with bad results or in some cases derailed paths. However, in this final stage most rich students of renowned institutes and all students of mediocre institutes turn out to be more focused on education, ensuring closure of their education by any means possible. But unfortunately, this last part of the effort from the students of mediocre institutes make them unnoticed due to the educational conception that good students always shine and mediocre never shine. This same scenario happens throughout the life of those students of mediocre institutes ending up having mediocre everything in most cases and normally the students of the good institutes start with good beginnings but lose the morality that he was raised with to engage themselves in earning money. Finally, the perception has completely changed of the good students as they have turned themselves more of a money machine then an intellectual person normally ending up as sophisticated brutes who is more inclined towards money then family and the perception of the mediocre remains the same even at the pick of their success as nobody normally mentions the success of any mediocre leaving the similar success of a bright student. Actually, until one has reached the peak of the society, nobody is considered out of the regular perceptual norm that we are focused on based on media perception.