Today’s “Phrase of the Day” is “vote with one’s feet” and its meaning is “to express one’s preferences through one’s actions, by voluntarily participating in or withdrawing from an activity/group”.
Example Sentence: However, by ignoring or belittling (dismissing) parents’ aspirations and demands (with the best of intentions), we have pushed parents to vote with their feet and leave the Anganwadi system. They are sending their children to the opposite of Anganwadi classrooms — to private preschools that are downward extensions of primary school. Here the 3-, 4-, and 5-year-old children sit in neat rows, practicing joyless, rote-based learning and memorisation of letters and numbers to the exclusion of all else…
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Courtesy: The Hindu
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