Students of Primary Schools in Bangladesh

Students of Government

Primary Schools

Shahid Bin Fazal

Primary School Students are the children of age group; 5 to 14 years old. They are in fact, in their infancy, playing, growing up and moulding time. Usually, t5hey use to play, talk and learn. According to our country education system a child starts to go to school at their 4 to 5 years of age. But sometimes they start a bit of earlier. Primary school takes into admission a child of 5 years old in the nursery or pre-primary class. A child of 6+ at class 1, a child of 7+ at class 2, a child of 8+ at class 3, a child of 9+ at class 4 and a child of 10+ at class 5. Sometimes, we see the age of the primary school going children cannot adjust to the above age-limit. They either remain younger or older in the classes. However, we would like to draw a picture of general primary school-going female and male child here in this feature.

Parents dream of their babies a lot, but can all children fulfill their parents` dream? Most probably, not. There is no sin to see a bright future of the parents` child. In general our couple, in Bangladesh, hopes that their child would have a happy life in future. They dream of their male child would be a doctor, an engineer, a high official or at least a teacher. If their child is female they hope much from it. They think if it grown up or become adult, she would go other’s home and get into herself in another family. So, they expect that a female baby would be good-looking, so that a good bride-groom could choose to marry her. People, who are conscious and educated, they try their best to make the female baby highly educated as well as self-help. But if the baby is a male one, a general couple in our society use to try their utmost to bring up the child to its expected position from the very first day of it’s school-going. Some, guardians don’t differ between male and female child; they hope and try their child a bright future. In fact, last group of guardians are the proper thinkers. Perhaps as most of ordinary guardians are poor, laymen, day-labourers, and poverty-driven, they can’t meet their both end meats, that is why they can’t hope much for their child. We would describe here the life of a general couple’s child. If they have a child, they send it to school. They provide its food, clothes, dress and educational expenditure. They take care of its Medicare. In a word, they try their best to take care of it properly. On the contrary, a little school going baby, avails books, teachers, sanitation, class materials and other educational facilities without any cost. The child grown up and cross up to the next classes. If reaches to the class five. At the end of the year, it appears at the Primary Samapony Examination. If it passes out well, he/she is sent to high school. Then to college and university. If he/she can complete graduation or post-graduation, then he/she finds a job. Sometimes, he/she can have a job early or it may take a long time. By this time, his/her time of  marriage comes .On and off, he/she gets married, before completing education and being set in a career. This is the common scene in our country. In this age heavy costly living age a guardian has to go through a lot of pains to build up a child. Meanwhile, a grown up buy or girl has to go through much pains. He/she cannot have enough money needed to maintain a simple student’s life. In the nutshell, can pass a happy life, but if it happens anything otherwise, he/she be comes burden to the family, society and to the country. Now we would return to the life of a primary school student. A general family child of primary school going, in our country, passes in the following way. In the early morning a baby gets up. He/she accomplishes his/her natural calls, takes breakfast, prepares class-tasks and starts for school after 9 am. He/she reaches at school. At 9.30 the class starts. From 1 to 11 students stay at school up to 11.30 and students of classes 11 to 5 stays up to 4.30. This is the fine year’s circle of primary education. A primary school student faces a lot of problems in our country. He/she cannot have proper food, clothes, reading materials, reading environment and teachers` assistances. Therefore, a student cannot achieve all the competencies he/she needed. The government and non-government organizations have been trying their best to rear up at least completion of primary education circle. A student of primary school has to achieve 50 expected competencies. But in fact, he/she can achieve only 20-30 of them. Most of them cannot cross 30, out of 50 competencies. As a result, they remain incompetent for class six and after. Gradually, he/she becomes frustrated and at a stage, gives up study or somehow crosses the stairs of classes and finally passes SSC, HSC etc. After passing out this type of stairs he/she cannot avail a job. A student like this, the nation doesn’t hope. Really, the4 nation hopes a competent, active, talent, well-studied and skilled primary school certificate, SSC, HSC, BA, MA, MBBS, Engineering passed good citize4n. For this we all have to give more attention to a primary school student.