Covid curbs hitting hard Govt schools: MSF
Source: Chronicle News Service

Imphal, January 18 2022: Manipuri Students' Federation (MSF) has expressed apprehension over the present academic situation in government schools as they have encountered several schools that are not imparting any education and have no plan for conducting examinations for class I to VIII.

In a release, MSF general secretary Hijam Roshan Singh stated that government schools are not teaching its students properly following the restriction imposed on conduct of physical classes from class I to VIII due to Covid-19.Considering this, MSF has been visiting homes of students and talking with their parents.

On Tuesday, a team of MSF along with teachers of Wakening Khullen Junior High School, Govindagram visited the houses of school's students.

The students they met were not doing any studies and were found playing all day and they were amazed to see their teachers.

Seeing this, the teachers were worried on how to teach them.

The parents also conveyed their distress over the education of their children, it said.

MSF pointed out that private schools are successfully conducting examinations for their students but for government schools there is no sigh of conducting examination.

Most of the parents of students studying in government schools are financially weak and do not own a smartphone which makes these students unable to attend any online class.

With no mechanisms such as home assignment, questionnaire booklet, etc., taken up in government schools in place of exams for promoting students to their next higher class, how is the government planning to educate them, it questioned.

MSF mentioned that during their visit they found that the students of Wakening Khullen Junior High School have been left unwilling to study anymore due to prolonged break in studies.

As such, to inspire them to pursue their studies they provided them with notebook, pen, pencil, eraser, etc.

The government must instruct its schools to follow their academic session at the earliest and the Education Department must also pay attention to the matter, it demanded.

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