UNB, Rajbari :
The Goalundo Shaheed Smrity Govt Girls’ School, a well-known secondary school at Rajbari with around 600 students, has been running with only four teachers where they are also extremely irregular in academic activities.
The agonizing reality has been persisting at the school for years, witnesses said.
Md Aslamuzzaman, assistant teacher of Shaheed Smrity Girls High School, has been absent from school for past 32 months but enjoying all the privileges of government job including the monthly wages, said Ranjan Kumar Biswash, headmaster of the school.
Other three teachers- A Mamin Chowdhury, who takes classes coming from Dhaka, and Debujit Kumar Das and Md Giasuddin come from Faridpur, come to the school regularly.
Sometimes they also fail to attend the classes as they reside far away from Rajbari. The school was established after the Liberation War in 1972 and had been operating with precision and fame which gradually turned into a place of disappointment where day after day students are deprived of proper education.
Though the school with such large number of students demands at least ten teachers, it has only four, and even these four teachers are not able to attend the school on regular basis, said Ranjan Kumar Biswash.
None of the teachers live in the locality adjacent to the school resulting in their frequent absence from academic activities while Aslamuzzaman remains totally absent, he added.
It has become hardly possible to operate the regular activities of school. The higher authorities were informed about the matter, the headmaster said.
The deprived students demanded at least eight teachers on regular basis.
Simi, a student of class 8, said “Our classes don’t takes place regularly. Science students don’t get any teachers’ assistance and 600 students are suffering from lack of necessary support.”
Goalunda Upazila Education officer Md Masudur Rahman said that the school has 10 posts for teachers where only four were on-duty. There is no teacher for important subjects.
Earlier, three teachers were on duty under Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP)but its tenure also expired recently, resulting in acute problems for students, he said.
Meanwhile, Goalunda Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Abu Nasar Uddin said the academic activities were greatly hampered by the lack of teachers at Goalundo Shahid Smrity Govt Girls School and the shortage of teachers had been putting pressure on the rest of them.
“Fresh teachers should be appointed at the school rapidly but the existing teachers must attend their classes or action will be taken against them according to the government rules,” he added.
He will recommend the higher authorities to take tougher action against the irregular teachers, he assured.
The Goalundo Shaheed Smrity Govt Girls’ School, a well-known secondary school at Rajbari with around 600 students, has been running with only four teachers where they are also extremely irregular in academic activities.
The agonizing reality has been persisting at the school for years, witnesses said.
Md Aslamuzzaman, assistant teacher of Shaheed Smrity Girls High School, has been absent from school for past 32 months but enjoying all the privileges of government job including the monthly wages, said Ranjan Kumar Biswash, headmaster of the school.
Other three teachers- A Mamin Chowdhury, who takes classes coming from Dhaka, and Debujit Kumar Das and Md Giasuddin come from Faridpur, come to the school regularly.
Sometimes they also fail to attend the classes as they reside far away from Rajbari. The school was established after the Liberation War in 1972 and had been operating with precision and fame which gradually turned into a place of disappointment where day after day students are deprived of proper education.
Though the school with such large number of students demands at least ten teachers, it has only four, and even these four teachers are not able to attend the school on regular basis, said Ranjan Kumar Biswash.
None of the teachers live in the locality adjacent to the school resulting in their frequent absence from academic activities while Aslamuzzaman remains totally absent, he added.
It has become hardly possible to operate the regular activities of school. The higher authorities were informed about the matter, the headmaster said.
The deprived students demanded at least eight teachers on regular basis.
Simi, a student of class 8, said “Our classes don’t takes place regularly. Science students don’t get any teachers’ assistance and 600 students are suffering from lack of necessary support.”
Goalunda Upazila Education officer Md Masudur Rahman said that the school has 10 posts for teachers where only four were on-duty. There is no teacher for important subjects.
Earlier, three teachers were on duty under Secondary Education Quality and Access Enhancement Project (SEQAEP)but its tenure also expired recently, resulting in acute problems for students, he said.
Meanwhile, Goalunda Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Md Abu Nasar Uddin said the academic activities were greatly hampered by the lack of teachers at Goalundo Shahid Smrity Govt Girls School and the shortage of teachers had been putting pressure on the rest of them.
“Fresh teachers should be appointed at the school rapidly but the existing teachers must attend their classes or action will be taken against them according to the government rules,” he added.
He will recommend the higher authorities to take tougher action against the irregular teachers, he assured.
