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RTE Act 2009 for REET L1 Teachers
The Right to Education Act 2009 operationalizes Article 21A and gives every child from six to fourteen years the right to free and compulsory education. For a Classes 1 to 5 primary teacher, the Act creates clear duties: admission in the neighbourhood school without screening or capitation fee, keeping the child in regular school, prohibiting physical punishment and mental harassment under Section 17, planning CCE under Section 29, following the no-holding-back norm in small classes, and respecting the Schedule norms of pupil-teacher ratio and two hundred working days. The teacher works with the elected School Management Committee on the school development plan and protects every child's dignity.
Key points
- Article 21A inserted by the Eighty-Sixth Amendment 2002 makes free and compulsory education a fundamental right for ages six to fourteen.
- Section 12(1)(c) reserves at least twenty-five percent of Class I seats in unaided schools for disadvantaged learners with state reimbursement.
- Section 17 prohibits all physical punishment and mental harassment of any child by any teacher in school.
- The Schedule fixes thirty learners to one teacher at the primary stage with two hundred working days and eight hundred instructional hours.
- Section 21 School Management Committee with three quarters parent or guardian members owns the school development plan and monitoring.
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The Right to Education Act 2009 operationalizes Article 21A and gives every child from six to fourteen years the right to free and compulsory education. For a Classes 1 to 5 primary teacher, the Act creates clear duties: admission in the neighbourhood school without screening or capitation fee, keeping the child in regular school, prohibiting physical punishment and mental harassment under Section 17, planning CCE under...