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Editorial
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| | Shabby plight of govt schools | | Teacher-student ratio is too disproportionate to go unnoticed | | | A news report in this newspaper highlights the shabby plight of school education in Jammu and Kashmir while pointing out that a higher secondary school in the remote Gundna area of Doda district has only five teachers and one Plus 2 lecturer; the ill-staffed school catering to the needs of 433 children from classes 8th to 12th. This may not be a case in isolation, rather it reveals a much more universal malaise, especially typical of schools in rural and remote areas, particularly the hilly areas. Though some efforts have been made in the recent past to woo well qualified and meritorious candidates to fill in the posts of teachers in high schools and higher secondary schools across the state by offering better pay packages, the visible shortage of staff, particularly in rural belts, has made no difference to the quality of education being imparted. Instead, it has created disparities even within the government run schools, with the two capital cities and the suburbs getting a better deal, at the cost of the schools in the remote areas, which may have been upgraded on papers but remain devoid of both infrastructure and staff. It is impossible for the best of teachers to do justice to their jobs if the student-teacher ratio is as imbalanced as noted in the Gundna school. While there is need to do away with such disparaties, the government would do better to be guided by logic than by vote bank politics and focus first on school education rather than opening a host of colleges in rural areas, which remain equally ill-staffed and ill-equipped, disabling them from providing quality education. |
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