Readers’ Voice

Impact of non-teaching duties

There are several aspects that influence teachers’ effectiveness, and one of the most important is their engagement in non-teaching activities, which a teacher must do in addition to his or her teaching obligations. Besides from teaching, teachers have a variety of responsibilities, one of which is non-teaching. Polio drives, census tasks, election duties, conducting surveys, disaster relief operations, school inspections with executives, book collection, and data feeding are among the non-teaching responsibilities.
Teachers at current educational institutes are responsible for instructing the pupils and for completing and managing a variety of other activities. Effective learning is only possible when teachers spend the maximum of their time teaching and learning. Teachers are currently assigned additional responsibilities in our educational institution.
At present in our educational institutions, many vacancies of clerks and other administrative staff are lying vacant. Due to this factor, teachers have to perform extra in order to run the machinery of the school. Concern authorities asked the teachers to perform extra work. In such cases teachers are passive and they must perform additional duties. This situation affects the performance of the teachers and as a result, teachers cannot deliver quality education to students.
In such type of environment, teachers could not deliver their expertise and content to the students in a good way they also have to engage in non-teaching activities such as hosted duty marking and supervision of examinations held by the boards and other educational institutions these duties are not in their responsibilities.

Zarin Islam
Naryanganj

Justice delayed, justice denied!

According to the provision of Women and Children Repression Prevention Act, the trial of rape case has to be finalized within 180 days. Because of the culture of impunity as well as absence of speedy trial, this heinous crime- rape is being multiple in recent times.
It is worth mentioning that the Women and Children Repression Prevention Act is one of the most ineffective existing acts in Bangladesh. Statistics shows that only 3 per cent of the lawsuits filed to head towards the court have come to a legal ending. Along with incorporating the provision of death penalty, some other prime barriers to the faster trial process like- the lack of witness protection system, want of gender sensitization of the justice sector actors, absence of timely medico-legal examination, deficiency of sentence discretions of judges and lethargy trial period must be dispelled.
A rapist is being penalized in faster pace in Bangladesh- we, the citizen, strongly desire to witness this much sought scenery in the days ahead and it is our ultimate urge to the state authority.
Nazifa Nawara
Sadar Rangpur