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“Though the mud contains pebbles and dirt, the potter moulds it with love and support into something beautiful,” she added. “There shouldn’t be a problem in letting a girl wrestle or letting a boy cook.” Prasad won the first prize in the competion.A student of Study Hall and one of the winners, Aditya Shukla, said, “Schools need a physical structure which welcomed disabled students. They should disrupt ideas which create inequalities and make the curriculum more gender sensitive and class sensitive.”Jyoti Rawat from Prerna School said that the relationship between a student and a teacher is like one between a potter and a mud. By: Nimisha.Dwivedi1@timesgroup.comLUCKNOW: An infrastructure which makes premises more accessible for disabled students and a curriculum which does away with gender inequalities through sensitisation are some of the ways in which schools can be made more supportive, said students who participated in the ‘Unicef TedX Talk with children’ on the inaugural day of the Lucknow Literature Festival 2018 on Friday.There young ages notwithstanding, the students presented their views on the topic ‘supportive environment in schools’ in two-and-a-half minute speeches and were judged by a panel of three judges—social activist and former Lucknow University vice-chancellor Roop Rekha Verma, additional secretary of Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan Vishnu Kant Pandey and C4B specialist for UNICEF Bhai Shelley.The event was organized ahead of the World Children’s Day, observed every year on November 20.A student of Class XII of La Martiniere Girls’ College, Vasundhara Prasad, said that schools shouldn’t teach girls and boys that they are equal but that they were equal despite their differences.

By: Nimisha.Dwivedi1@timesgroup.comLUCKNOW: An infrastructure which makes premises more accessible for disabled students and a curriculum which does away with gender inequalities through sensitisation are some of the ways in which schools can be made more supportive, said students who participated in the ‘Unicef TedX Talk with children’ on the inaugural day of the Lucknow Literature Festival 2018 on Friday.There young ages notwithstanding, the students presented their views on the topic ‘supportive environment in schools’ in two-and-a-half minute speeches and were judged by a panel of three judges—social activist and former Lucknow University vice-chancellor Roop Rekha Verma, additional secretary of Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan Vishnu Kant Pandey and C4B specialist for UNICEF Bhai Shelley.The event was organized ahead of the World Children’s Day, observed every year on November 20.A student of Class XII of La Martiniere Girls’ College, Vasundhara Prasad, said that schools shouldn’t teach girls and boys that they are equal but that they were equal despite their differences. “There shouldn’t be a problem in letting a girl wrestle or letting a boy cook.” Prasad won the first prize in the competion.A student of Study Hall and one of the winners, Aditya Shukla, said, “Schools need a physical structure which welcomed disabled students. They should disrupt ideas which create inequalities and make the curriculum more gender sensitive and class sensitive.”Jyoti Rawat from Prerna School said that the relationship between a student and a teacher is like one between a potter and a mud. “Though the mud contains pebbles and dirt, the potter moulds it with love and support into something beautiful,” she added.

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