The first period—happiness class — at Kautilya Government Sarvodaya Bal Vidyalaya in south Delhi’s Chirag Enclave has just begun. The teacher, Umesh Kumar, writes on the chalkboard in neat, cursive letters: ‘Happiness Class’.
The walls have several colourful posters made by the students, including one that lists ‘12 ways to happiness.’ The teacher and the children, with yellow smiley badges pinned to their ties, look fresh, cheerful and jovial — the perfect atmosphere for a happiness class, which has no grades, no textbooks, no homework.
For the uninitiated, happiness classes were introduced by the Delhi government in its schools for children up to Class 8 for enhancing their mental and emotional well- being.
Read more of this in a report, directly from the classroom, by Manoj Sharma published in Hindustan Times....
