Though quality education is the biggest source for social change in any parts of the world and same holds goods for Jammu & Kashmir but while promising quality education the compromise on quality education in private schools outnumbering Government schools in enrolments is fast reducing the scope for improvement in quality education. As private schools are mostly filled to capacity, the unprecedented increase in enrollments has reduced the scope for equal attention in a class of over 50 students almost in all the private schools and more so in missionary private schools attracting huge enrolments across Jammu & Kashmir. As such the disparity in attention of teachers towards the students is by all probabilities fueling discrimination which demands immediate attention of the schools education department for the purposes of fixing teach-student ratio for each and every class in both private and government schools. Though parents may not be noticing the consequences of increasing enrollment in private schools but performance of the candidates from Jammu & Kashmir in competitive examinations like NEET if calculated in terms of the ratio of qualifiers annually brings to light the costs of compromise on quality education in primary, middle and secondary classes in private schools across Jammu & Kashmir. It hardly matters that parents are impressed to see their wards getting good grades in primary and middle classes but what matters is the performance of the children in competitive examinations like NEET. Ironically even students of private schools most of whom take pride in quality education look desperate to undergo coaching at private coaching centre for the purposes of qualifying competitive examinations like NEET. As such the desperateness of the students of private schools for coaching at private coaching centres for competitive examinations like NEET disputes the tall claims of private schools on quality education. While most of the teachers of private schools tend to motivate students to pursue coaching at the coaching centres they run before 10.00 A.M in the morning and after 4.00 P.M in the evening, the government does not restrict teachers of private schools from private teaching practice at private coaching centres but it only imposes restrictions on Government teachers from private teaching practice at private coaching centres.
People wonder that Government is concerned about the physical load of school books on children when they carry school bags on their shoulders but it is least concerned about the unprecedented burden of teaching on teachers teaching both in day time at schools and in the evening and morning hours at private coaching centres and increasing stress on students attending morning and evening classes at private coaching centres and routine classes at schools during the day time.
Since the private teaching practices by teachers of both private and government teachers is not only flourishing the trade of private coaching but both teachers and students come under unprecedented mental stress by attending classes twice in a day. To reduce the increasing burden of teaching on teachers teaching both at schools and as wells as private coaching centres and release the increasing stress of double homework on students it would be better for the School Education Department to impose equal restrictions on private teaching on teachers of both private and government schools for attaining the twin objectives of accountability and quality education at both private and government schools. People wonder that Government is concerned about the physical load of school books on children when they carry school bags on their shoulders but it is least concerned about the unprecedented burden of teaching on teachers teaching both in day time at schools and in the evening and morning hours at private coaching centres and increasing stress on students attending morning and evening classes at private coaching centres and routine classes at schools during the day time.
