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| Private schools bye-pass Government's directive of holding exams in March 2015 | | Grant mass promotion of students upto class 7th | | Jehangir Rashid
SRINAGAR, Oct 26: Virtually paying no heed to the directive of state government that annual examination for this year should be held in March next year management of scores of private schools today granted mass promotion to their students.
The schools under the banner of Coordination Committee of Private Schools Associations (CCPSA) unanimously decided to grant mass promotion to all of its students studying upto class 7th in view of recent floods.
The decision was taken after a day long meeting of representatives of private schools, businessmen, teachers, parents and other stake holders of the society. The mass promotion was given to the students after a resolution was passed at the end of the meeting.
"There is apprehension among students and parents regarding the future as nobody knows what will happen next. On the insistence of parents and after thorough deliberation all the schools of valley have decided to give mass promotion to the students right from Nursery to 7th Class based on previous performance/term-end achievements to classify under-average, average and above-average students," said Dr Mushtaq Ahmad, Central Coordinator, Coordination Committee Private Schools Associations (CCPSA).
The CCPSA has decided that after completing all formalities, the promoted students would start their next classes by November 01, 2014 in their respective schools. The participants at the conference came down heavily on government for almost destroying the education sector with their ill plans.
Speaking on the occasion, Abdul Qayoom Wani, Chairman Jammu & Kashmir Teachers Forum said the decision of state government to adopt the March session for this year's examination is bound to ruin two years of academic career of the students. Qayoom said that state government should make March session a permanent feature in the state.
"The March session suits our students as it would make them more equipped to compete not only at national level but also at global levels. The civil society should come forward and save the education sector from vested interests who want to make it a political fodder," said Qayoom.
Chairman of his faction of Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA), Mohammad Showkat Chowdhary slammed the government for lack of vision in developing education sector. Showkat alleged that the education system has been hijacked by few schools with the government dancing on the tunes of the owners and management of few schools.
"Kashmir Economic Alliance (KEA) is in touch with government for compensating the losses that schools suffered due to floods. Be it rehabilitation or review of their March examination policy we are in touch with them and we won't rest till the issues are resolved," said Showkat. The committee has asked all private schools to promote the students in their respective institutes.
"The participating schools agreed in the meeting about the resolution and those who couldn't participate have been informed about the decision," said G N Var, general secretary Private Schools United Front. Var claimed that 50 percent of the crisis situation that was plaguing the education sector has been overcome adding that remaining issues too would be solved in the near future. |
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