Private school teachers deserve more
By: Peer Mohammad Amir Qureshi
The principal person in charge of creating and nurturing the generation that will determine a country’s future is a teacher. In other words, teachers are the nation’s builders, as is expressed more frequently.
Throughout the beginning of time, teaching has been a noble vocation. It is a righteous act in and of itself to enlighten one’s path. Islam has elevated teachers and given them rights. The statement expressed by Hazrat Ali (RA) that “If a person teaches me one single word, he has made me his servant for a lifetime” helps us to realise the greatest level of teachers.
Yet regrettably, the private school teacher’s takes sufferings from both parents as well as by the school administrators and those in charge of affairs frequently treat teachers like slaves and second-class citizens, and they deal with a great deal of hardship and sufferings while carrying out their jobs.
Even after countless hours of committed lectures, do they not deserve to be rewarded and paid on time? According to J& K private School Association 65,000 of teaching and non teaching staff has no source of income.
As private teachers didn’t receive their salaries on time, they too had families to support and other obligations to shoulder, but a driver receives his pay on time as there is no respect for a private teacher having rigorous qualifications as the school administrators understand that the valley has a high unemployment rate and that new teachers will be hired shortly after they publish an employment notification.
It is important to note that some of the best schools in the valley value and appreciate the labour and dedication of their instructors, and this is clearly a very positive and appreciable trend in progress. But regrettably the fact is that as a society, we have consistently failed to comprehend, acknowledge, and appreciate the arduous sacrifices made by our teachers.
From few years the student teacher relationship has became susceptible and low and have became drastically down as there’s not that kind of respect like it was it now has became a friendly relation .
The private school teachers take sufferings from parents as teachers can’t cause any ruling against their students as it seems to be the teachers now did not have right over their pupils before two days a private teacher was arrested for beating two students in Ghaziabad.
Several private teachers claim that parents are increasingly telling them what to do with their children, whether or not they should give them homework and assignments etc. It now entirely and solely rests on the disposition of their ward, including their interest in writing, learning, and reading. As teacher’s are alike their servants and had to fulfil their demands and even some teachers are being sacked as the school administration needs results at any cost and the teachers have became scapegoats.
Private teachers receive lower minimum earnings than a peon or a driver employed by the same institutions, they work diligently and enthusiastically but are seldom paid as a result, they frequently have to wait months for their paychecks pay checks.
Moreover, private schools don’t pay teachers their wages separately during winters since they collect tuition and school fees separately, despite the fact that they get sizable payments from students during the winter and hold winter camps to register more students.
Government should develop appropriate guidelines and legislation governing private schools. The bulk of Kashmir’s private school teachers continue to battle melancholy, unrealistic expectations, feelings of ineptitude and financial constraints.
(The author is a columnist and is pursuing his masters degree)
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