Academic activities at Ali Kadam High School in the district are being hampered seriously due to shortage of teachers.
Sources said, at least 11 out of 16 posts in the school under Ali Kadam upazila have been lying vacant for long. The post of headmaster has been lying vacant for four years hampering the academic activities.
Despite acute shortage of teachers, the government appears to be reluctant to fill up the posts lying vacant, local people alleged.
Sources said the school had been nationalised in 1989. Now there are 450 students in the school.
Guardian Abul Bashar said: “It is impossible for four teachers to manage 450 students.”
There are no biology, maths, business, agriculture and social science teachers for ten years. The guardians and locals have been struggling over the issue for a long time.
Some agitated guardians expressed that they would go in hard line if the authorities did not solve the problem.
They said they would not send their children to the school if the situation continued more.
Class VII student Tisha Karmoker said: “We cannot complete our syllabuses as there are no teachers for many subjects.” Badol Karmoker, Class X student of the school said: “We are worried about our SSC exams as there are no science teachers.”
After visiting the school it was found that inadequate number of teacher hampered academic activities.
The students were gossiping here and there as the class rooms were without teachers.
Zahar Singh, acting headmaster of the school, said: “It is difficult for us to complete the academic curriculum in time due to teachers’ shortage.”
The upazila vice-chairman Shreen Akter said: “A lot of students get admission early in the year but they do not want to stay in the school due to lack of teachers.”
“The result of the school in JSC and SSC exams is satisfactory as the youths in the area teach in the school voluntarily. But it cannot the way of solution,” she said.
Baki Billah, education officer of the upazila said: “We are trying our best to solve the problems within the current fiscal year.”
