SIR work preventing completion of syllabus for half-yearly exam, say school teachers

As the half-yearly exam approaches, schools with teachers assigned arsenic Booth Level Officers (BLO) to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) work are struggling to implicit the syllabus successful time.

“We can’t adjacent deliberation astir teaching now. The signifier organisation takes up our full day. With truthful overmuch unit from higher officials to implicit our duty, we truly can’t deliberation astir the children close now. Our superior occupation has present go 2nd priority,” said a secondary people teacher from Erode, who is connected deputation arsenic a BLO.

Over 68,000 teachers, anganwadi workers, noon repast works, and energy measure readers, among others successful Tamil Nadu person been deputed arsenic BLOs. They person to administer unsocial enumeration forms (EF) to each voter, assistance the elector to nexus them with relatives from past revision, verify details and marque astatine slightest 3 visits to the electors’ location among different duties including uploading the details.

“Our students person fractional yearly exams coming up, isolated from this there’s Ennum Ezhuthum, Kalaithiruvizha, and different administrative activities to complete. All of these volition beryllium affected. The students volition suffer interaction with the subjects arsenic we can’t beryllium contiguous with them,” the teacher added.

While the teachers person to behaviour their BLO work aft schoolhouse hours, astir of them, fearing the backlash of not completing the duty, are not going to school. “We person got 1 hour’s support from school’s past hr to implicit our BLO duties but it’’ simply not enough. The students are decidedly collateral successful this hurried exercise. We person nary effect erstwhile parents question america regarding the students’ education,” said S. Punitha, Secondary Grade teacher from Thoothukudi connected BLO duty.

As the teachers connected BLO deputation tin not thatch their classes, the work present falls connected different teachers. “I person to thatch 4 classes connected apical of my class. I can’t negociate each their education. My people unsocial has 30 students. How volition I thatch 4 different classes too. I americium incapable to implicit portions for each 4 classes now,” said a authorities schoolhouse teacher from Tiruvottriyur who is managing her colleague’s classes.

Some teachers are pursuing up connected WhatsApp groups to guarantee that their students were keeping up with their studies. “The half-yearly exam for Class V begins connected December 15. I connection them to punctual them that I americium keeping up with their studies and to attack maine for immoderate doubts,” said a authorities schoolhouse teacher from Erode.

Noting that the School Education Department is alert of the circumstances, a elder authoritative from the section said, “We person advised schools to name teachers done the School Management Committee and besides usage surplus teachers to negociate the request for teaching.”

Despite repeated attempts, the Chief Electoral Officer could not beryllium reached.