Lone Altaf
Are you expecting the govt schools will run when there is no restriction on opening of countless private schools within a limited area. Are these govt schools whether having a low grade books, less infrastructure, or dearth of staff, will they do justice and provide quality education or Is it possible for the parents to feel free to admit their children’s in these schools; No, no one is ready to take such big risk in this competative modern era. It is just like an old fashioned vehicle which you want to run without fuel and tried to force it from outside to move few steps forward but in response it gets totally uselesss. Nowadays you would find innumerable private schools which became a business hub to suck the blood of parents by exhibiting a big dreams. You would see the parents are getting trapped and are ready to sell all the properties for their kids to get Admission in these fancy schools. It doesn’t matter for a parent whether to get quality education but transportation and colourful dresses matters. If ones children is getting education in govt school and his/her neighbour’s child in private school, that hurts the former and make all possible efforts to withdraw their children. If you go to the developed countries, 90 per cent children’s are in govt run schools as they are equally developed.
The govt adminstration itself failed to handle the mushroom growth of private schools as they belongs to the influential people. There is no restriction to stop this business and you can find such private schools in every street, Mohalla , villages, towns and cities. There seems no rule while registering new private school within, or not more than 100 yards away to each other.When you have more such schools, rather than govt schools, how you expect the healthy roll of govt schools, inspite of less infrastructure, dearth of staff, low grade books and lack of necessary facilities by which our govt schools can progress. Despite having a good roll in village and far flung area schools, where a teacher has an opportunity to work with zeal and zest to show his/her mettle but unfortunately you will find dearth of staff, the teachers were assigned to do other official work and collection of data for different NGO’s. This poor student didn’t get justice as what they deserve from the govt administration and these schools also failed due to the worst kind of adminstration where you can find only favouritism, nepotism and Sufrashi works.
If government wants to take an initiative to stop this unnecessary growth of private schools and provide all the necessary facilities of govt schools which would strengthen them and handle the mushroom growth of private schools as business units. The govt themselves using different tatics to use a saw to cut or uproot their own schools. It is a matter of great concern that concerned higher authorities in secretariat should think about it and work out to enhance the standard of education in our govt school, and empower the present heads in their schools whether primary, middle, high or higher secondaries, give them a free hand to handle and make such heads responsible to give cent percent result while providing education. Rather than this, while upgrading their own govt schools, which needs a feeding area to upgrade their level, same rule should be applied for private schools as well and also while registering a new school.
As experienced from my own village, where one good school is enough to run as the population is not more than 1200 but about 13 private school buses came from neighbouring villages and towns, how govt is expecting to the functioning of this very govt school of this village where you can find many reason to get away from such schools like, the dearth of staff, poor infrastructure, poor quality of academic books etc. Other than this, maximum number of male teachers were assigned additional work in different offices, which also weaken the academic side of such schools. If a teacher is appointed for school, why they are utilized in others services, other than teaching in a particular school. These factors were the main reasons, to decline the standard of such schools and latter were get benefited, which strengthened them and it seemed to the mingling of highers authorities to the private sector. These steps helped our private schools to establish their businesses units very well and in response our government schools gets most affected , which would make this department in the records of Red book of endangered list.
Government Teachers get huge salaries as compared to private ones but our state Adminstration failed in utilizing their services for which they were appointed and this remains the day dream for our higher authorities to achieve the quality education of the already enrolled students due to which our state ruined the future of these schools by different means, out of which most poor background students gets affected by the declining of education standard in such schools. From last few years, the govt administration take anti teacher approach and had no stone left to defame this respectable community and make this a point of argument in nook and corner of our society which leads these schools towards precipice decline. The books were not up to the mark which can be also a case of declining factor of our education standard and rebellion approach of parents to withdraw their children’s from such govt schools.
Need of an hour is to implement the same rule for all, streamline the syllabus, provide healthy staff, good books, improvement in infrastructure and withdrawn additional assignments rather than teaching, then have a race to compare the two opposite sectors. When one is free from implementing the rule and the other is bounded , how can it be possible that both can run parallel and progress. It is now time for Adminstration to rethink, rebuild, reframe the policies, schemes and then expect the quality education from the teachers of our govt schools.
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