Some sour facts about public sector education system

Our public sector education system is in shambles, everybody knows.  But only a few are aware of the causes and the corruptions that have made it so.

The main problem lies with the recruitment system of the school teachers. Almost 90 percent of the teachers’ vacancies are filled through political influence or nepotism. Such type of ‘teachers’—sorry to say they do not deserve to be called teachers—play
a key role in spoiling their students. Instead of imparting knowledge to the pupils, they scratch out from their minds what they already have.

Currently, numerous teachers of our primary and middle schools possess merely matriculation or intermediate degrees. Moreover, they are totally deprived of the innovative ideas. Their information and knowledge are orthodox and outdated. They are nothing
to do with the demands of the modern era. Most of all, the typical matter of teaching they follow is unable to prepare students to cope with the modern day challenges. Severe physical punishments and heavy fines still rule the roost in our schools.

The second fault line lies with the management and surveillance system. There is not effective check and balance to gauge the performances of teachers, the students’ attendance records and the usage of the technical facilities that the donor agencies grant
to the schools. Though the government has formed some teams consisting of retired army men to visit the schools and collect reports, but they are totally inactive and useless.

When a checking team visit a school, the school administrators arrange lavish lunches for it to hide their faults. What the so-called checkers do is to fill up their bellies and return home without taking notice of any matter.

The third and an unnoticed flaw is private tuitions inside the schools by the teachers. This trend, which is prevalent everywhere in the country, is a killing pill for the talent. The teachers avoid to teach their respective subjects during the school time,
and then force their students to stay and attend tuition classed after the leave call. For this, the students are charged heavily. Where is the free education for all? Nowhere.

Unless the above-mentioned problems are fixed, there is no chance of betterment in this significant sector which is supposed to produce the country managers, workers and leaders. This is awful. This really needs attention.

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Posted by Sharjeel Ahmad on Jan 26 2012. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry