For some students of class X from the Government Senior Secondary School Rehna, in the Raipurrani block it is second time in a row that they have failed to clear the class X exams. Now, the parents of these children have decided to pull their children out of the school.
This year, more than 54 percent of the students have failed the class X exams of the Haryana Board School of Education examination. The worst performers in this race are Government Senior Secondary School Rehna and Government School Bhood where only 1 and 4 students were able to pass their exams respectively.
With no remedial measures and extra-classes the stakes for the future of these children are high.
However, the teachers from the school put all the blame on the government’s no detention policy and poor attendance of the these students in the school.
“When they come to higher classes, they donʼt even know how to write basic things, what to talk of explaining the curriculum to them. It is all because of the right to education policy wherein these students who donʼt even know anything are promoted till Class VIII,” said a teacher of the Government School Bhood on condition of anonymity.
Principal of the Government School Bhood, Pushpa Rani, said that the school has been making all the possible efforts to improve the performance of such children but they don’t attend the classes.
“Parents make them do homely work. What do we do?” she said.
Tejinder, Principal of the Government Senior Secondary School, Rehna said that we have all the facilities here but most of the times these children are not interested in studies.
“Just after a few months, teachers leave after getting the transfers done. I am still trying hard to get in some teachers here. But the fact is that these students have to be pulled out of their homes to attend classes,” she said.
However, both the villages have a different tale to tell and they hold the staff’s absentism as a main factor for the students’ failures in the exam.
“What to talk of holding any extra classes for the students who failed, these teachers donʼt even come here to attend regular classes. We always find students loitering outside because all the teachers aren’t here. In some cases, they even remain absent for months and later get themselves transferred,” Taj Mohammad, a resident of Rehna village, said.
He added, “Moreover, when a student has failed, isn’t it the teachers’ responsibility to make efforts and improve the child’s performance? Teachers say that children don’t attend classes and if children don’t attend the school as per what teachers say, why do they then make an effort to appear a second time after they have flunked? This is just an excuse given by the teachers,” he said.
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