Quality Primary Education at Moheshkhali (Part-111)

Quality Primary Education at Moheshkhali:

What the working teachers think and why*

Part-111

Ghatibanga Government Primary School is the only school which has been introduced clas-111, according to National Education Policy/2010. There are only 6 teachers now at the school. The post of Head teacher of the school is vacant for long a year. At present, there are about eight hundred students have been studying at this school. The class 8 students (44) of this school would appear at the JSC examination in 2015. The working teachers are in great anxious and they have been suffering too much now, as there are a lot of problems to run all the classes from Preprimary to class eight. They also don’t have enough class-rooms, furniture and other required logistic materials. Mr. Mukhter Ahmed is the head teacher-in-charge of Ghatibanga Government Primary School. He says that the JSC examinees have been enlisted and registered for the exam, but it is very difficult to make them well-prepared for it. According to him(Mr. Mukhter) the school has been facing seriously the following problems.

1. There needs to be filled-up the vacant posts (07) as early as possible.
2. There has to be posted an expert head teacher must, soon.
3. Enough class-rooms, furniture, teaching-learning materials must be made available at the school, immediately.
4. SMC, PTA and the local community people should be active and cooperative enough to the teachers, working there.
5. The Upazila/District authorities have to pay heed to the problems of this school sincerely and have to take proper steps.
6. Special Teaching/Coaching for the JSC examinees and PEC examinees should be arranged.
7. Mr. Mukhter Ahmed also says that the working teachers should be more serious and hard-working for maintaining a minimum educational quality of the school.

It is fine to have an institution like that at the upazila level, but the problems should be resolved. The authority should be more serious for this types of schools to run smoothly.

*Mohammad Shahidullah

AUEO, Moheshkhali,

 Coxsbazar.