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| Teacher-taught ratio quite wide in J&K government schools | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 7: The state Government has decided to introduce English from first primary level in Government schools, but the plan may face problems in view of shortage of teachers in the primary schools.
Official circles stated that there are over 22300 Government primary schools in the state and the total number of teachers is 10609 which reveals that there are between 2 to 3 teachers in each primary school.
The result is the foundation of students at the primary level remains less solid when compared to the students in the primary schools in the private sector. Experts said that since the teacher-taught ratio in the Government primary schools is quite wide teachers fail to provide guidance to students individually.
These experts said that in several hundred government run primary schools a single teacher was entrusted with the duty of teaching more than three subjects. This forces students to lose interest.
The growing loss of interest has been one of the factors responsible for school dropouts. Though the Minister for Education, Peerzada Mohammad Syed, has claimed that the school dropouts has declined from over 3.60 lakh to about 40,000 during the last seven years. But there has not been any major improvement in the rate of dropouts in the primary schools in the far flung rural areas.
Official sources confirmed that one of the reasons for wide gap in the teacher-taught ratio in the primary and higher secondary schools in the rural areas was delay in filling the vacant posts and a large number of teachers enjoying their attachment in the schools in the two capital cities and at district headquarters.
Parents have urged the Government to reduce the gap in the teacher-taught ratio which was necessary for upgrading the academic atmosphere in the state. (KIP)
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