Fill the vacant posts of headmasters in schools immediately

It is really surprising that of the 2107 government primary schools in Cumilla, 1018 schools reportedly do not have headmasters. This crucial post is lying vacant for a long time in these schools.

There are also 524 posts of assistant teachers that are also lying vacant in these schools.

If there is no headmaster in a school, there will be serious administrative and academic problems in that school, and not surprisingly, in the vast number of Cumilla schools, absence of headteachers is disrupting education seriously.

According to a report yesterday, the problem is persisting in Cumilla despite lodging complaints at the district education office about the acute shortage of headmasters.

In these schools, the duties of headmasters are being borne by the assistant teachers.

However, it is not that the government primary schools in this district alone are suffering from a shortage of headmasters. The picture is more or less the same in schools of other districts as well.

One cannot expect to see improvement in the quality of education in government primary schools without adequate teaching staff. The acute shortage of teachers, including headmasters, has not just occurred all of a sudden.

Year after year there is a shortage of teachers. As a result, both the students as well as existing teachers are suffering because they have to bear the additional pressure.

Students in the schools that do not have headmasters and an adequate number of teachers will not be able to achieve good results.

From the district education office, it is said that teachers would be appointed soon against the vacant posts of assistant teacher.

The recruitment test for assistant teachers in all schools is over. Due to a lack of competent math and English teachers at the rural level, students score poorly in these subjects compared to their urban counterparts.

The absence of teachers at the foundational level schools is proof of the fact that the government – the education ministry to be precise – is completely negligent of educating the growing number of children in the country.

This is how a nation cannot hope to prosper in its true sense of the term.