IAS Gyan

Daily Mains Mini Test

DAILY MAINS QUESTION 22nd APRIL 2021

22nd April, 2021

You are appointed as a head master of a secondary school, it has been brought to your attention that some boys from the senior classes are caught smoking inside the school premises. You are furious that the school’s discipline has been breached so you immediately summon the boys to your office. Upon some inquiry you discover that the boys come from an impoverished part of the district where smoking is a norm among the elders of the house, from where they seem to have adopted the habit. (20 marks, 250 words)

Answer the following the questions.

a) Discuss the values you need to adopt while dealing with this case?

b) You are determined to make the boys quit smoking. How do you plan on executing your will?

c) When cultural normativity gets fashioned as behavior, discuss the responsibility of agents like schools in transforming behavior within society