| 'Wrong policies promote copying in matriculation exams' | | No retention policy till class 9th, DSE to hold increment for below 50 % marks in 10th class | | Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 5: The policies of State Education department are devised in such a way that these are ultimately promoting copying in matriculation examination. As per official orders, the government has adopted no-retention policy for students of government schools upto class 9th but threatened to hold increment of teachers for below 50 percent results in class 10th board examinations.
Teachers working in various government schools informed Early Times that the State Education department has issued written orders for no retention policy for the students until Class-8th.
"No student will be failed by the teachers during evaluation of the question papers. Ultimately we have to pass all the students, whether they have written something in the answer scripts or not", a teacher pleading anonymity said, adding that time and again, the government teachers have to write something on the answer scripts of the students, and then mark the same, so that some marks must be given to them.
Another teacher said that last year, the government had devised a new policy, terming the students, who were failed in examinations in class 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th as potential learners. "We were instructed to take their remedial classes, in which we were asked to teach them very basic questions and the tests were also conducted by school teachers and without any strict evaluation, all the students were shown as passed", the teacher said.
The teachers said that now the department has once again verbally instructed all the teachers not to fail any student in Class-9th also. "It simply means, none of the student will fail in class 9th and ultimately, in the matriculation examination, the examination would be conducted by Jammu Kashmir Board of School Education and evaluation would also be external and majority of the students from government schools will fail", the teacher said, adding that the teachers were caught in such fix that if the result would remain below 50 percent, department would also without the increment of teachers.
"When the students are not evaluated till class-9th and obviously most of students have very little understanding of subjects. To get their increment the teachers are virtually forced to encourage mass copying during matriculation examination", the teachers said, adding that not only one but most of the teachers were in favour of copying during matriculation examination.
A Chief Education Officer (CEO), while criticizing the department said that policies were formulated by bureaucrats, who have minimum understanding of ground level situations. "In Army Schools, Kendriya Vidhyalayas, Navodya Vidhyalas and other government schools, there is no such no-retention policy for students and the poor students are not promoted to next classes. Same policy should be applied in state run government schools otherwise, the product of government schools are simply literate in records but actually their knowledge level is very poor", the CEO said. |
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