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Three teachers for eight classes
Shariq Majeed
Tribune News Service

Mandi-(Poonch), May 26
Notwithstanding the claims of the state government to provide quality education at the doorstep, a government school here has just three teachers for eight classes.

The school is Government Middle School, Maharkote.

Sources in the education department told The Tribune that there was a requirement of 8-9 teachers for its 165 students in eight classes from Ist to eighth. They further said that even though the government had deputed a fourth teacher, he had been deployed as booth level officer (BLO) and remained busy with the assignment.

Parents of the students rued that the education authorities were jeopardising the career of more than 150 students by not providing adequate staff. They added that on many occasions, they took up the matter with the department, but to no avail.

“See, there are just three teachers for eight classes. Since the number of teachers is too less, sometimes each teacher has to take two to three classes simultaneously. This is a mockery of the education system of the state”, said Jamal Din, father of a student, Muhammad Rafi. “The government should wake from slumber and provide adequate staff for the school so that poor students don’t suffer further”.

A student said: “Since our teachers mostly have to take two to three classes at the same time, it becomes hard to study in such a scenario. We wish to study and even teachers want to teach us in a good way, but our school is facing an acute shortage of teachers to teach us.We hope that through the media our problem reaches the top education authorities for proper action and solution”.

Efforts to contact senior education department officials at Poonch failed, but a junior officer while confirming the shortage of teachers in the school said the problem would be solved soon.