Rajshahi Correspondent:
A guardian named Abu Saleh’s son is a ninth-grade student in a renowned government school in Rajshahi. He said, “We pay school fees, examination fees, and then pay coaching fees to the same teachers. But if my child does not take coaching, he is ignored in class.” A guardian named Shahnaz Begum Poli said, “My son also does not go to college, he goes to a coaching center.
When I ask him why he does not go to college, he says that classes in college are not held regularly and the teachers are not adequately prepared. ” Students are forced to run to coaching as they cannot catch up with their lessons in class. The teacher of that coaching is also a teacher from his school or college. The fact that teachers are involved in the coaching business has raised concerns among the education department.
To restore the quality of education in the classroom, teachers were ordered to submit information about their involvement with private coaching centers and kindergartens. However, educational institutions in Rajshahi have kept it almost completely hidden.
The directive was issued by the Rajshahi regional office of the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education-Maushi on December 3. All schools and colleges of the division were asked to verify and send a list of names of teachers involved in the coaching business by December 15. But according to Maushi sources, only three institutions out of the hundreds of educational institutions in the division have responded to this.
Educationists believe that this problem is becoming chronic due to the lack of political support and administrative courage of the regulatory bodies. Professor Deepkendra Nath Das, former chairman of the Rajshahi Education Board, said, âThe lack of quality of education in the classroom, the intense competition for GPA-5 and the desire of teachers to get rich quickly have made the situation worse.â As a result, coaching centers have been established wherever they are. The coaching business is booming.