Education department says project still on,schools differ

The Education departments much-touted students assess teachers project appears to have gone off the boil with most schools not seeing any activity prescribed by the project.

Sources claim that the schools have neither received any questionnaire for evaluation nor has any counsellor visited their premises. This is in stark contrast to the last year when students were asked to evaluate teachers on a bi-annual basis.

We regularly received feedback forms from the department which were to be filled by the students. Counsellors appointed by the department also visited schools on a regular basis to interact with students about the project. Things are different this year, said a principal requesting anonymity.

Director Public Instructions (Schools),Samwartak Singh,meanwhile,denied that the project has not been executed this year. We have been taking feedback from principals and also assessing the teachers mid-term results. The department has also decided to take into consideration any complaint lodged by a student about his teacher, Singh said. He added that while teachers continue to be assessed,only the mode has changed.

How else do you expect us to write the Annual Confidential Report? he asked.

Teachers,meanwhile,appear to be a happy lot. The department has helped us unknowingly. Asking students to assess teachers was asking for too much. The officials failed to understand that children are not wise enough to judge someone in an unbiased manner. We are happy that the involvement of students has been reduced to a bare minimum, said a teacher of Government Model High School,Sector 19.

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