Primary education in poor shape
I have done a survey on both govt. and private primary schools on the basis of total quality and performance of the schools. My survey has the synopsis on the findings derived from schools. Private primary schools are going ahead, whereas govt. primary schools are lagging behind silently. While talking to the govt. schools' senior teachers, I came to learn that the huge number of students was a problem that they could not manage. Most of the govt. schools have an unmanageable ratio of teacher-student. For instance- in Kurmitola govt. primary school located at Khilkhet, the teacher-student ratio is 1:86. So, here this ratio depicts the real picture. As a result, students' overall quality as well as performance goes down. Apart from these reasons, there are other problems like late allocation of textbooks, mistakes in textbooks, poor educational background of teachers, reluctance of teachers to motivate students, and last of all guardians' indifferent supervision over their children etc. On the other hand, private primary schools' senior teachers mentioned that their students were doing very well.
It is known to us that govt. wants to increase the literacy rate by enhancing the rate of enrolment in primary schools. However, a mere increase in the number of students going to school is not enough, the quality of education is an important aspect of the whole scheme that must not be overlooked by the education authorities. Better conditions must be created in government schools which are now in bad shape owing to various reasons.
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