11-year-old Aniket Joshi has 15 days to complete his notebooks in a format decided by State School Education’s new directive.
It’s every school kid’s nightmare. Apart from juggling with the school curriculum, tuitions and mounting homework, 11-year-old Aniket Joshi has 15 days to complete his notebooks in a format decided by State School Education’s new directive.
Setting a revised pattern of teaching, this directive that was allegedly issued to schools at the beginning of the academic year, has not just troubled the kids but irked the teaching fraternity and the school authorities as well. Teachers allege that the directive never reached them and has only added to the load of coaching students for the final exams.
“Instead of conducting regular lectures and preparing the students for the exams, we have been busy completing the students’ notebooks as per the revised pattern. As per the directive issued by Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, a state-run body for implementing quality enhancement projects in the education system, we have to complete the notebooks for all subjects before the commencement of the inspection that has been scheduled in the next 15 days,” said a teacher on the condition of anonymity.
The Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has been endowed with the job of assessing the academic performance of the city schools. “The stipulated pattern ensures in-depth study of the syllabus. The syllabus should have been taught from the beginning of the academic year. The allegation that the teachers were not informed is baseless,” said JM Abhayankar, director of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
However, the school authorities and the teaching fraternity have refuted the claims of the state-run body that they were trained to teach the syllabus as per the set pattern. “No training was provided by the education department on the revised pattern.
Thus, the syllabus was being taught as per the pattern that was followed for the past few years. Instead of being adamant on conducting the scrutiny based on the revised pattern, the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan should make it mandatory that the syllabus should be taught according to the revised pattern from the next academic year,” said PM Raut president of Mumbai Educational Institutions Managements’.
Raut added: “With the pressures mounting on the teachers that they will be scrutinised on the basis of the new pattern, students will be compelled to sit for long hours and complete the syllabus. It’s a tedious job for the teachers and the students to complete the six-month-old syllabus within a short duration.”
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