Improve teaching or face transfer, teachers warned

Geetanjali Gayatri

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, May 28

The Government High School in Gurgaon’s Kanhai district is readying for its second inspection in one month.

On May 30, the Principal Secretary (Education) TC Gupta and his team will attend classes to assess the “improvement” in the learning standards of students.

The stakes are high for the staff and the head mistress since Gupta, during his surprise visit on May 1, had directed them to bring about improvement in the learning levels in a month failing which they would be transferred to “far-flung areas”.

Gupta had found the quality of teaching and learning “extremely poor” and upkeep of the school premises and cleanliness of toilets even worse. The school had not bothered to share the results of the monthly tests, introduced by incurring huge expenditure and effort, with the students or their parents, he had said.

While he found the teaching of English extremely unsatisfactory with the students unable to reply to the simplest of questions, the Physical Instructor was taking two classes in the classroom. The letter adds that the toilets were stinking and the general cleanliness of the school was poor.

Sources said that a team of seven officials will accompany him during his visit to the school. The officials will sit with the students to ascertain if there has been an improvement in the teaching methodology since the last visit.

Gupta will visit the classes randomly after which a report will be prepared, the sources added.