A
day before Intra Class Competition was successfully organized in the school for
the PPW (Classes Nursery to I) students.
There were 30 participants from Class Nursery to I who took part in it.
Most
of their parents had also turned up to witness the performance.
All
Judges were from the senior wing. The
weather remained good and the whole competition went off as per the plan. Almost all the participants performed to
their best. Not a single participant got
stuck in between. They all completed
their performance with full confidence.
Of course, there were few who were unable to speak into the microphone
as good as others did. But Judges never
took a note of the factor while judging PPW students for after all they were
aware of the fact that the kids were making use of the microphone for the first
time in their time lives.
On
the basis of combined judgment the prizes were given away to the top three
performers among 10 participants for each class.
After
half an hour or so one of the parents of the participants came over to my
office to meet me. They expressed their dissatisfaction regarding the judgment
as their ward had not got the prize.
They genuinely asked me as to what answer they should give to their
ward’s question that why he hasn’t got the prize and they also asked for tips
regarding how to enable their ward to enhance his level of performance so that
he could win prizes.
I
tried to convince them by putting across the following points :
a) All
Judges were form the senior wing and were not knowing the participants. So chances of any partiality were not there.
b) There
were four Judges whose marks were added to Judge the performance. So chance of subjectivity was reduced.
c) Along
with enabling the little ones to participate in such competition we also need
to guide our children to face defeat gracefully.
d) There
can be no guarantee given by anyone that a participant will win a competition.
They
tried next to point out that the third prize holder’s performance was not up to
the mark. For this again I had to point
out that there were four Judges and they as parents should avoid such feelings
that the judges were biased.
Father
appeared to be more logical and understanding and was
soft in his approach but unfortunately I was not able to convince the mother regarding
my views as much as I would have loved to.
Hope
in future they have better experiences with us.
13th
August 2016