What follows below is my summary in English of Jayamohan's essay -in Tamil - on Government education in schools.
Teachers unions rule the roost - there is no accountability in school education.
When Collector Nagarajan and Education Officer Radhakrishnan enforced discipline and accountabilty, Kanyakumari district jumped from 5th to 1st place in 10th exams in 2011-12 and 13th to 6th place in 12th exams.
Most teachers don't work, they demand coolies to come to after school tuition. Exceptions are astounding people of great character.
This year teachers protested about "Supervisor Dictatorship" because 3 School Principals were suspended. Next day, Govt Education department was surrounded by teachers unions.
Govt teacher jobs are obtained by bribes to ministers or officials. There is no sense of duty or honesty among most govt school teachers. Very rarely , and only very mildly, is a teacher punished.
In hills of Erode, the midday meal cooks ARE the teachers. A female teacher complains "I have a husband and children to look after. How can I teach?" !!
This year, the TN Govt held a teachers' evaluation test. Questions were of the quality of "What is the capital of India? What is 10+1?" Most teachers failed this test. After severe protests from teachers unions, question quality was reduced "Delhi is the capital of India, yes or no?". Now, 50% failed. Illiterate people would pass this easily.
After a case was filed in the Supreme Court, the Judges decided this quality was good enough & these mediocrities were re-appointed as teachers. I doubt these people have a read anything after the application form when they got their jobs.
Education department should fire these people and hire competent ones. These lousy teachers get better pay than most engineers. The only ones who suffer are those children who cannot afford a private education.
Teachers unions rule the roost - there is no accountability in school education.
When Collector Nagarajan and Education Officer Radhakrishnan enforced discipline and accountabilty, Kanyakumari district jumped from 5th to 1st place in 10th exams in 2011-12 and 13th to 6th place in 12th exams.
Most teachers don't work, they demand coolies to come to after school tuition. Exceptions are astounding people of great character.
This year teachers protested about "Supervisor Dictatorship" because 3 School Principals were suspended. Next day, Govt Education department was surrounded by teachers unions.
Govt teacher jobs are obtained by bribes to ministers or officials. There is no sense of duty or honesty among most govt school teachers. Very rarely , and only very mildly, is a teacher punished.
In hills of Erode, the midday meal cooks ARE the teachers. A female teacher complains "I have a husband and children to look after. How can I teach?" !!
This year, the TN Govt held a teachers' evaluation test. Questions were of the quality of "What is the capital of India? What is 10+1?" Most teachers failed this test. After severe protests from teachers unions, question quality was reduced "Delhi is the capital of India, yes or no?". Now, 50% failed. Illiterate people would pass this easily.
After a case was filed in the Supreme Court, the Judges decided this quality was good enough & these mediocrities were re-appointed as teachers. I doubt these people have a read anything after the application form when they got their jobs.
Education department should fire these people and hire competent ones. These lousy teachers get better pay than most engineers. The only ones who suffer are those children who cannot afford a private education.
