Peanuts for pay but excellent products : Squeezing private school teachers
- The Sangai Express Editorial :: May 13 2015 -

Pathetic show. A pass percentage of only 61.11 in this year’s Class XII examination conducted by the Council of Higher Secondary Education and one should get a more than fair idea of the point that is being mentioned here.

It is not rocket science technology for it stands that the pathetic show must be more about the Government run institutions while it is the private schools which have ensured that it is not totally a white wash. A point which has been said here before on more than occasion but which The Sangai Express will keep on repeating until and unless the responsible people wake up to the fact.

The pay packet of all private school teachers is a joke but it is they who have been producing the best students in the State for decades.

A question which the Government should have started raising a long, long time back.

Obviously since the Government officers and employees are paid handsomely this fact may not register in their minds, but it is more than right that this is an issue which should have been raised a long, long time back.

Government teachers are paid handsomely, but their products will surely make a laughing stock of all that stand for education.

A look at all those occupying positions of power and influence will reveal this fact.

With teachers in private schools paid a pittance, it is not such a big surprise that they do not concentrate much in their classrooms at schools and prefer to reserve their best for private tuitions.

This should more than explain why private tuitions are booming all over the State.

The burden of private tuition fees are being borne by the parents and guardians but till date not a voice of sanity has been raised.

This is something flummoxing given that the State has earned a degree of notoriety for going on strike at the slightest pretext.

In a short while, parents will start queuing up at all the more preferred private schools to get admission for their wards and children.

Nothing wrong in this, for every parents would want the best for their children.

But why has no one ever given a thought to the state of the private school teachers ?

A question which everyone should start raising now for it affects practically everybody.

Maybe teachers of all private schools too need to come under a common platform and take up issues which concern them especially their service conditions and salaries, for remember what they get as monthly emoluments directly affects everyone.

It is disturbing to note that till date the Government has not given a thought on the pay structure of private school teachers.

Everyone seems to be talking about ‘quality education’ but in reality no one seems to have come around to the idea that the education that one is talking about is directly related to how the teachers are being paid.

And certainly, private tuitions can never replace schools or what is taught within the class rooms of a school.

Private school teachers too need to reciprocate and come to the fact that what they teach inside the classrooms will be felt not only during the board exams but also on the future of the land.