Stereotyping government schools
Mahfooz Ahmad Bakshi
School is a place where experiencing individuals seek knowledge from experienced individuals. Schools are the buildings that are made up of thousands of hopes because schools generate doctors of the future, lecturers of the future, authors, and many more.
From my point of view any place where the learning process takes place can be called a school. But when we read the word school we imagine two types of schools, Government and Private schools. Both deal with the same thing but most of us think differently about Government schools or private schools.
If we look around we will find empty classes inside the government school but if we take a look around private schools there is probably no space left for more students. When people hear the word GS they start saying that Govt schools lack hygiene, govt schools have the worst infrastructure, unskilled or uneducated teaching faculty but what they say about private schools is totally different.
This smells of discrimination. Student of private schools are taken as rich and the students of government school are taken into the poor category which is unfair indeed, but it’s also an act of cruelty. Instead of learning the unity students now learn to judge even before getting the admission in the school.
Government is spending way too much money on their schools and is strict to the teaching staff but most of the people don’t know. I know this because I have spent 11 years in a government school and some months in a private school. I am still in a government school. It’s not that I cannot afford private ones, it’s just a matter of quality. Both types of schools provide the better quality of education but government schools provide the best. That’s my feedback. Now the question that arises here is, If government schools have better quality of education then why are their classrooms getting empty?
There are many answers to that question but I will mention some of them. First of all I will not hesitate in mentioning that the Teachers are the main culprits behind the emptiness of classrooms because most government teachers don’t teach their own children in the school they are working, which clearly explains that the teacher is not educated and that the teacher has doubts if he can teach his own children well.
Taking that into consideration parents also admit their wards in different private schools. That’s one of the reasons and the other reason is the rise of jealousy among parents. When a mother of a kid watches other kids going to schools that takes more than their income as admission fee then a spark of jealousy rises as she thinks that “Why will my son/daughter go to cheap Government schools?
And then she forces her husband to enroll their children into the same expensive schools. See Government schools aren’t cheap they just provide an opportunity to let everyone get knowledge besides this they teach unity they try to cease the divisions based on rich and poor. Jealousy has ruined every single thing and jealousy among parents will ruin the future of children which is perilous to the nation.
Infrastructure and good teaching faculty is the first priority of government schools. To get the job of government teacher, a person has to do a lot of hard work and has to study whole day and night for this. Still we stereotype government teachers which is a concern and shame for all of us.
As I have spent 11 years in government schools I haven’t faced any problem to be honest. I have enjoyed and I have learned a lot yes there may be certain reasons of hating such schools, but overall I would like to rate 10 out of 10 to the government school. I got a lot of help from these schools, before I was not even able to read a single word and writing was a challenge for me but Alhamdulillah, I came under the guidance of best teachers and now I’m one of the youngest writers of district Ganderbal.
I am not discriminating but I am just saying what I have felt during these 11 years of my life. Talking in favor of private schools, I have spent only a few months in one of the recognized private schools so I am able to write about only a few advantages of it.
In these schools co curricular activities were conducted on a daily basis, regular exercise and dieting was important, that’s what government schools lack. Besides the parents meeting with the principal of that school was conducted every month and attendance of every student was being kept in front of parents. This is the thing I never saw in government school. In nutshell students every action was being monitored.
But this doesn’t mean government schools are useless. Yes, there may be some teachers who defame the whole teachers community by their actions even I have noticed teachers smoking in front of school students. Some teachers yelling at students for no reason, some teachers taking bribe and so on.
Moreover, nowadays there is a competition between private and government schools where we can see Government schools outshining private schools as they are now focused on good quality education. In conclusion, I want to request you people that if you don’t want to admit your children in a government school then please and please do not spread false information about them. They are trying their best to eliminate illiteracy in this part of the world.
(The author is a budding Columnist, he hails from Ganderbal district)
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