A permanent tag “first generation learners”

Since the day I have been visiting schools in rural and remote villages of Sirohi district I often hear this introduction from the teachers about the children i.e. “First Generation Learners”.  But I come to realize some contrasting facts on this very statement. Let’s go back to the history of education policies and agencies in India.  National Policy on Education since 1968 and again promulgated in 1986 on elementary education has aspect of universal access and enrolment, universal retention of children up to 14 years of age, and a substantial improvement in the quality of education to enable all children to achieve elementary education, Articles in the constitution of India affirming primary education as state responsibility, India’s commitment on Millennium Development Goal (MDG), Right to education (RTE) a revival act in broken education system has been lunch at a massive scale. In addition to this entire acts and policy I was told that most of the schools in remote villages have been established past 15 to 20 years. Another interesting figure that supports my suspicion is that most of the Head Teacher had an experience of 20 to 25 years.
 

So my argument is, Are this children truly first generation learners? If so, why are their parents uneducated in spite of national policies and laws flouted way back in 1960’s? All the teachers tagging an experience of 20 to 25 years must have been in the service when the parents of these children are still at elementary level. According to the general trend a women get marriage in the age of 16 and above so a teachers who is currently teaching her son/daughter and has and experience of 20 to 25 years must have been a teacher in her childhood also. But, where thus this gap came from? Parents themselves pronounce that they are illiterate in spite of the school established years back. And comparing to the present scenario children are not able to read or write properly. They are not confident to stand before the fellow student and read. Their prospect of going to higher education is very low.  Teachers convenently credited their student weekness in studies to the tag First generation learners. Do they realy meant it or are they just making an excuss of their inability to teach the children inovatively in context of childrens socio-cultural life? Are they just passing on the buck to the being of children when all these children  spend more hours of the day with them and almost throught out the year then thier own parents? Elementary education and with the quality they receive will not make them confident enough to call themselves as literate so, once they get married and have children going to school the tag first generation learners will be still there and this will follow to the preceding generation like a permanent tag.