Yesterday 1st Feb 2014 visited a number of primary, secondary & high schools of Taluka Kotdiji District Khairpur with Karam Hussain Wassan & media people. The aim of this visit was to see the situation of education. It is very disappointing & sad to see the crumbling condition of education. We managed to visit around 10 primary boys, one primary girls, two elementary & two high schools. Two out of ten boys primary schools, one out of two high schools & both elementry schools found properly functional. All other were closed or just opened before our arrival. We observed after visiting a working boys primary school, the news was spread to all teachers that a team is visiting schools, so some of them managed to open schools but many failed to do so. Traditionally teaching is considered a respected profession & it is respected job because this was the profession of our Prophet SAW (PBUH). Unfortunately lying was so common in many teachers. During this visit I learned an interesting terminology of devastated education system of Sindh such as visa teacher - this means a teacher gives a portion of his/her salary to govt officials & dont do his/her job. A taxi-teacher - this denotes a teacher hires a person to attend school on his/her behalf. Lakar or bund tar - this means if a team or an official visits any one school in a UC or beat or near by area this information is communicated with other fellow teachers quickly to make them cautious. I have been listening the stories of non-functional/semi-functional primary schools but it was shocking to see a high was almost non-functional. When we spoke an official of high schools he also acknowledged the position of this school but he didnt take any action. I salute to those teachers who are doing their jobs in this hard situation, in which their fellows are in majority who dont want to do their job. I dont just blame teachers for this devastated situation of education, there are multiple factors & actors involved in this mess such as community/parents, leaders/politicians, government/state, civil society, private school owners/establishment above all we all as a Sindhi nation. Lets unite at least on this issue of our survival - Save Education Save Sindh. I have photos will upload later. We wereYesterday 1st Feb 2014 visited a number of primary, secondary & high schools of Taluka Kotdiji District Khairpur with Karam Hussain Wassan & media people. The aim of visit was to see the situation of education. It is very disappointing & sad to see the crumbling condition of education. We managed to visit around 10 primary boys, one primary girls, two elementary & two high schools. Two out of ten boys primary schools, one out of two high schools & both elementry schools found properly functional. All other were closed or just opened before our arrival. We observed after visiting an open boys primary school, the news was spread to all teachers that a team is visiting schools, so some of them managed to open schools but many failed to do so. Traditionally teaching is considered a respected profession & it is respected job because this was the profession of our Prophet SAW (PBUH). Unfortunately lying was so common in many teachers. During this visit I learned terminology of devastated education system of Sindh such as visa teacher - this means a teacher gives a portion of his/her salary to govt officials & dont do his/her job. A taxi-teacher - this denotes a hire a person to attend school on his/her behalf. Lakar or bund tar - this means if a team or an official visits any one school in a UC or beat or near by area this information is communicated with other fellow teachers quickly to make them cautious. I have been listening the stories of non-functional/semi-functional primary schools but it was shocking to see a high was almost non-functional. When we spoke an official of high schools he also acknowledged the position of this school but he didnt take any action. I salute to those teachers who are doing their jobs in this hard situation, in which their fellows are in majority who dont want to do their job. I dont just blame teachers for this devastated situation of education, there are multiple factors & actors involved in this mess such as community/parents, leaders/politicians, government/state, civil society, private school owners/establishment above all we all as a Sindhi nation. Lets unite at least on this issue of our survival - Save Education Save Sindh. Note: we were not intended to harass teachers just wanted to observe the situation being members of community. I have photos will upload later.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Feb 2014 02:51:59 +0000
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