Primary School and the Society

A Primary School is an

Institution of the Society

Mohammad Shahidullah

Who belongs to a Primary School? Of course, it belongs to a people, established and built by them. They felt to have a school in their locality for children’s study. So, they took initiative to set up a school by their own cost and labour. At that stage, they spent money, collected materials like wood, bamboo, straw and tins etc. Later, it took a shape of full-fledged schools. In course of time, the government started to take care of it and provided funds. At present, a primary school is a national as well as an institution of the society. Here we would try to draw a picture of a school.

What is a Primary School?

A primary school is constituted with six main components. They are (1) wealth, (2) teacher, (3) students, (4) teaching-learning, (5) locality and experiment. It is an institution which provides children. Usually, six subjects are; (1) Bengli, (2) English, (3) Math’s, (4) Social Studies, (Science, and (6) Religion. Besides, more subjects like Arts and Songs, Physical Education and Extra-curricular Studies are taught at primary schools .A primary School has six classes; they are (1) Class one, (2) Class two, (3) Class three, (40 Class four, and (5) Class five. These classes are formed into a primary school circle. We call a primary school good, when its students can accomplish the circle well, that is they can pass 100% in the Samapony Examination (PSC). Along with the students can have scholarships, first divisions large in number? A school may have four to above number of teachers, students are at least 50. The limit of students` heighst number is within 1000 t 2000 hundreds. A good primary school makes happy the locality, teacher, officers and the nation. We hope at least 50 such school throughout the country. The government has chosen one school; naming Model Primary School at each upazila or Thana. But the schools have been showing same performance. There are a number of causes for that. Due to selection criteria and head teachers many of the Model Schools are not countable They have been just carrying on the name and identity. The goal of the authority to make Model Schools of upazila or thana would follow the model schools should be competent, qualified, expert, good leader; in a word ideal one. The other head teachers must follow them. At some upazila or Thana model schools have not been playing the role of a model school. We must hope for the best that model schools truly would become so. The others would follow them and each and every school would an asset to the society and to the nation. Then the nation would have good and educated citizen. If every citizen would have education and good characteristics of a good citizen, the whole nation would be developed one in the world.

a Primary School would be an expected institution, if the locality takes it into heart they love the society, they love the children, so is the primary school in their locality. Now, the government provides teachers, buildings, furniture, free-books, computers, learning materials, stipends, food (limited) and other facilities, but somehow there have been prevailing a gap between the primary school and the society. So, the maximum schools performances are not up to the mark. They (locality) must feel that a primary school is their own asset. It is an institution that makes their children educated and developed.

In fact, after liberation of the country, the government of that period declared all the primary schools nationalized. From then the schools have been developed, both inwardly and outwardly. But we can’t claim that these schools could have fulfilled our hopes and expectations. In spite all the limitation, these schools have been providing proudly people of the country, in large number. These traditional institutions can play a great role, not the well furnished civic schools. So, every body should pay heed to them.