“Reports appearing in newspapers and telecast live from news channels about the poor functioning of private school unfortunately don’t attract as much attention and intervention of either the School Education Department or the Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee (FFRC) as they deserve.”
The leaders of private schools talk much about quality education but do little to bring uniformity in the patterns of teaching and infrastructural facilities at Private Schools. In fact inequality in the standards of teaching and infrastructural facilities at private school attracts parents more towards decades old missionary private schools like Burn hall School, Presentation Girls Convent School, Tyndale Biscoe School ,Mallinson Girls School and few others and less towards non missionary private schools. In fact non missionary private schools barring a few are functioning almost like private Schools and surprisingly the fee they charge is almost unaffordable for the middle class sections of the society. Reports appearing in newspapers and telecast live from news channels about the poor functioning of private school unfortunately don’t attract as much attention and intervention of either the School Education Department or the Fee Fixation & Regulation Committee (FFRC) as they deserve. The top authorities of J&K School Education Department unfortunately don’t even take notice of the media reports about the functioning of private schools in rented unsafe private buildings for years together and it looks bizarre that still non missionary private schools talk about quality education. What goes against the basic sprits of institutional and administrative ethics is the meager salary of few thousand rupees teachers draw at most of the private schools and yet against even the salary of few thousands is also kept unpaid for months together at most of the private schools despite timely payment all fee by parents. Felicitating teachers of private schools for their contribution at a gala event organised by Universal Mentors Association in Srinagar is undoubtedly good for the health of private schools but the poor teaching and infrastructural facilities at the thousands of private schools functioning in Jammu & Kashmir instead of just 250 selected schools invited for the said event deserve and demand immediate attention and intervention of not only the top functionaries of the J&K School Education Department but also of the Universal Mentors Association that had come here to celebrate quality education at private schools.
“Human ethics demands that recruitment rules for appointments of teachers are fixed by School Education Department in consultation with the leaders of private Schools and simultaneously steps are also taken to declare mandatory the availability of basic teaching facilities including the buildings for the administrative offices, classes, laboratories and libraries besides the facility of playfields at all private schools . Forget about the introduction of digital education system the basic infrastructural facilities and availability of qualified teaching staff hold key to uniform growth and development of quality education at private schools in Jammu & Kashmir.”
The general public perception about the working of private schools in Jammu & Kashmir is that they have been reduced to just shops which are being run at the commercial conveniences of the owners as there are neither basic recruitment rules for the appointment of teachers nor the minimum infrastructural requirements for the working of private schools. Human ethics demands that recruitment rules for appointments of teachers are fixed by School Education Department in consultation with the leaders of private Schools and simultaneously steps are also taken to declare mandatory the availability of basic teaching facilities including the buildings for the administrative offices, classes, laboratories and libraries besides the facility of playfields at all private schools . Forget about the introduction of digital education system the basic infrastructural facilities and availability of qualified teaching staff hold key to uniform growth and development of quality education at private schools in Jammu & Kashmir.
