Cent per cent down from 32 to 9
Three schools in urban Ahmedabad had zero per cent result this time; authorities blame it on poor basic education
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2013 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/2013062020130620021150637b2b93d44/Cent-per-cent-down-from-32-to-9.html
Yogesh Avasthi
Posted On Thursday, June 20, 2013 (http://www.ahmedabadmirror.com/article/3/2013062020130620021150637b2b93d44/Cent-per-cent-down-from-32-to-9.html
The state government seems to be going gaga over skill development with focus on education at Vibrant Gujarat summit this year. However, if we take into account the performance of schools in class 10, the indicators present a pretty bleak picture of the way things are going. Compared to last year, there has been a drastic dip in performance in urban and rural schools in Ahmedabad.
This is evident from the fact that three schools — M Y Tutorial School in Shahpur, Karmyog High School in Sabarmati and Adarsh High School in Odhav — had zero per cent result in class 10 this time compared to two schools last year. In rural Ahmedabad, the situation was worse. Last year, no school had zero per cent result, while the number has climbed to three this year. On the other hand, there has been a huge decrease in schools with 100 pc results. Urban areas saw more than 70 pc fall in schools with cent per cent result with number falling from 32 last year to 9this year.
The scene in rural areas wasgrim with just 10 schools achieving 100 pc result compared to 40 last year. This decline has become a cause for concern for schools and education department. Schools in question blame it on the poor basics of their students. There are 58 schools in city with 30 pc or less students having cleared SSC exam; 13 schools had between one and 10 pc result, 12 schools between 11 and 20 pc passouts and 30 schools had pass percentage between 21 and 30 pc range.
The education department is now planning to step in and cut grants to these 58 schools and prepare an action plan to arrest the slide. MY Tutorial School Principal Kalpnath Chauhan said, Our students are poor. Their parents are mostly manual labourers. We try to guide them at school, but their home environment does not boost educational growth.” The financial constraints on the families are huge and students have to supplement earnings of their parents.
“We have to push these children to attend school,” Chauhan said. Of total 34 students at M Y Tutorial, five failed in only one subject. Karmyog High School Principal Chetan Kumar sounded equally pessimistic, “Forty-two students took exams at our school. They studied in municipal schools from class 1 to 8 in and then came here, so their basic concepts were not clear. We still motivated them and did even called them on the previous day of the exam.”
Niki Rawat, who failed in Class 10 and studied at Karmyog school said, “We didn’t have money for tuitions. Since I studied in municipal school from class 1 to 7, my grounding was not good.” The Adarsh High School Trustee Sanjay Dubey said, “I took over only in September. The students studying in AMC schools come here. When they join here in higher classes, they can’t even write their names properly.
We put in a lot of effort. ” Dubey added, “We have to send text books, notebooks etc to their homes. Their parents do not have time to come for meetings, as they are busy making both ends meet. Besides, these students have to help their parents.” DEO R I Patel said, “Grants to the schools which have achieved less than 30 per cent result in class 10 will be cut. We will stop the increments of the teachers in schools. We will create an action plan from this year and take extra classes to improve the standard.”
This is evident from the fact that three schools — M Y Tutorial School in Shahpur, Karmyog High School in Sabarmati and Adarsh High School in Odhav — had zero per cent result in class 10 this time compared to two schools last year. In rural Ahmedabad, the situation was worse. Last year, no school had zero per cent result, while the number has climbed to three this year. On the other hand, there has been a huge decrease in schools with 100 pc results. Urban areas saw more than 70 pc fall in schools with cent per cent result with number falling from 32 last year to 9this year.
The scene in rural areas wasgrim with just 10 schools achieving 100 pc result compared to 40 last year. This decline has become a cause for concern for schools and education department. Schools in question blame it on the poor basics of their students. There are 58 schools in city with 30 pc or less students having cleared SSC exam; 13 schools had between one and 10 pc result, 12 schools between 11 and 20 pc passouts and 30 schools had pass percentage between 21 and 30 pc range.
The education department is now planning to step in and cut grants to these 58 schools and prepare an action plan to arrest the slide. MY Tutorial School Principal Kalpnath Chauhan said, Our students are poor. Their parents are mostly manual labourers. We try to guide them at school, but their home environment does not boost educational growth.” The financial constraints on the families are huge and students have to supplement earnings of their parents.
“We have to push these children to attend school,” Chauhan said. Of total 34 students at M Y Tutorial, five failed in only one subject. Karmyog High School Principal Chetan Kumar sounded equally pessimistic, “Forty-two students took exams at our school. They studied in municipal schools from class 1 to 8 in and then came here, so their basic concepts were not clear. We still motivated them and did even called them on the previous day of the exam.”
Niki Rawat, who failed in Class 10 and studied at Karmyog school said, “We didn’t have money for tuitions. Since I studied in municipal school from class 1 to 7, my grounding was not good.” The Adarsh High School Trustee Sanjay Dubey said, “I took over only in September. The students studying in AMC schools come here. When they join here in higher classes, they can’t even write their names properly.
We put in a lot of effort. ” Dubey added, “We have to send text books, notebooks etc to their homes. Their parents do not have time to come for meetings, as they are busy making both ends meet. Besides, these students have to help their parents.” DEO R I Patel said, “Grants to the schools which have achieved less than 30 per cent result in class 10 will be cut. We will stop the increments of the teachers in schools. We will create an action plan from this year and take extra classes to improve the standard.”
