23 teachers get last chance to explain poor result

Tribune News Service

Faridkot, May 23

As many as 23 poorly performing and ‘defiant’ government school teachers, who have failed to give — in the past five months — the reasons for their poor results, have been summoned by the Education Minister to appear before him on May 27 at Mohali.

If these teachers failed to appear personally to explain the reasons for their poor results this time, the department would take a one-sided decision against them, warned the Department of School Education.

For very poor results in the Class X and XII exams of the 2014-15 academic session, the Education Department had summoned 186 teachers at Mohali on January 6. However, some of these poorly performing teachers remained absent from the January 6 meeting with the Education Minister to get tips to improve their performance.

On February 11, these absentee teaches were issued show-cause notice, but 23 teachers did not respond to this notice.

Now the department has summoned them for the last time (on May 27). The department would proceed ex parte against them if they are absent this time, reads the letter to these ‘defiant’ teachers.

Most of these defiant teachers are from government schools in rural areas. The maximum are from Jalandhar district, followed by Kapurthala and Gurdaspur.

These 186 teachers are those whose students’ pass percentage is less than 20. All students of as many as 35 teachers have scored ‘zero’ in their subjects.

The meeting of these teachers with the Education Minister on January 6 was aimed at identifying the reasons for the poor result and to smarten up their teaching ability with new training programmes, said Sukhchain Singh Gill, District Education Officer (Secondary), Faridkot.

The class X and XII students of 40 per cent of these 186 teachers have shown very poor result in English subject, followed by mathematics.