20 Questions to Chairman, Indian Schools 1. Why the contact details of the Board members or Chairman is not published for the public or parents? 2. Why there is no grievance addressal system given to parents? How can a parent lodge a complaint with you? 3. You (Board) started collecting registration fees from parents for admission in Muscat. How much is the annual income Board getting and how much is getting spend? Who is holding the balance? And where the balance money going? 4. Are your accounts audited by an independent agency? Is so why it is not published to parents, leave alone public? 5. Coming to school level, do you having auditing in school level? Where are the audit reports? Do you have internal auditors in schools? Who appoints them? 6. What stops you from publishing the criteria for selection of committee members and the list of parents applied to the committees? 7. What stopped you from fixing a term for the committee members in schools? 8. What is the reason for selecting non-parents to the committee and reason for continuing non-parents to the committee? 9. You say parent forums are banned in Oman. Can you publish that rule or order from the Government of Oman in this matter for our information? 10. You say that school committees are parent forums for the school. In that case what is the role of non-parents in committees? 11. Why are you keeping school committee vacancies open and then allowing persons who resigned to come back to the committee? 12. You claimed that by fee increase of the school you confirmed the financial sustainability of the schools. Why you are not making financial statements of the schools public? It is rumoured that more than 27 million riyals (ie. Indian rupees 400 crores as bank balance) is the total surplus with the schools. Is it true sir? we parents like to know the truth in this matter 13. Where is the excess fund of the schools going and who is handling the excess funds of the schools? How committee members are prevented from misusing the funds for their personal uses or favouring their companies? Is any committee member can take loan from this fund? Can committee members take the money of the school? What is the rule in this matter? Who is monitoring this? 14. What is the code of conduct for the school members and Board Members? While you are very eager to publish the code of conduct for the parents, threaten us with that why you are not publishing the code of conduct for the board and that for school committees? 15. Why parents are not having access to your Bye Laws? Anything we ask, the school says as per Bye Law not permissible. What is so secretive of this Bye Laws. What is basis or authorization for your to keep bye laws secret 16. You standardized the minimum salaries of teachers. Good. What you have done to ensure that these teachers are meeting minimum teaching standards? 17. Can you tell us in the last 3 years (during your term) how many teachers have been warned for non-performance and how many of them terminated for poor performance? 18. Can you tell us how you are monitoring the School committee? How you know a member is performing good or not misusing his position? How many members have been warned in the last 3 years for not performing or attending committee meetings? 19. Do you have rule that school teachers should send their children in their own school only? How many teachers are sending children to other schools? 20. What you did to control private tuitions and accountability of teachers in this matter? Can you elaborate on this?
Posted on: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 12:08:15 +0000
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