Primary school without headmaster
Photo: Wahid Adnan / Driknews
The government, especially with Nurul Islam Nahid as the Education Minister, is undeniably sincere and endeavouring to better the education at the primary level. It claims that it is making all out efforts to offer better teaching and learning and to bring the dropout rate to almost zero. But many government primary schools are reportedly running without headmasters. So how the above goal could be achieved remains a big question. As a retired official settled in village, I am rather dismayed to see that Auliabad Government Primary School with enrolment of 500 students under Dohar Upzilla, Dhaka has been running without a headmaster for more than nine months. The previous headmaster was transferred to a place of his choice, but no new headmaster was appointed in his place. The school now has four teachers, of whom three are women, and two of them are currently on maternity leave, each for six months. Now think of the plight of the students! The School Managing Committee met the local education officers on many occasions to arrange the appointment of a headmaster. It also finally met the high officials at the directorate, but to no effect. The local education officers do not seem to pay any attention to solve the problem. The parents of the students then requested me to bring this to the notice of the higher authorities through your esteemed daily. The class V terminal examinees suffered badly, and that was proved in their examination results which were published on 27th December. The newspapers also reported that many schools run short of headmasters and teachers, especially on the periphery. The authorities concerned must address the issue forthwith.
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