CBSE asks private schools to list out teachers’ duties
The
CBSE wants to ensure that teachers in private schools are not saddled with
non-teaching work, a common complaint across the country, and will in coming
days ask these institutes for staff details.
The
Central Board of Secondary Education, the country’s biggest school board, would
issue a circular to all the around 16,000 private schools affiliated it to it
to give information about the work assigned to the non-academic staff, sources
said.
Some
of the Delhi’s top schools are among the 1,200 institutes that will have to
share the information.
The
board, said sources, received several complaints -- from private teachers’
associations and individual teachers -- that schools were keeping costs down by
asking teachers to collect fee and perform bus duties among other chores. These
jobs ideally should be done by clerical staff or non-teaching employees.
“We
have been taking up this matter with the CBSE and it will be good if they ask
private schools for details of teachers and administrative staff and the duties
they perform,” said Sheik Shabbir Ali, president of Telangana Private Teachers
Forum, one of the associations that took up the matter with the board.
“Unlike
government school teachers, private ones can’t even complain for the fear of
losing their jobs.”
In
many schools, teachers were expected to call parents to inform them about fee,
keep a watch on students during lunch break and fill up forms, he said.
But
not everyone agrees. SK Bhattacharya, who is the president of Delhi’s action
committee unaided recognised private schools, said teachers were not doing
administrative work.
“Teachers
are only involved in academic activities. But teaching is not just limited to
classrooms and teachers work on activities like debate, dance and sports,” he
said.
A
teacher in a school in Uttar Pradesh’s Indirapuram said teachers were
overworked. The continuous and comprehensive evaluation (CCE), which required
teachers to maintain a file on each student, had increased their workload.
“There are over more than parameters under CCE and we have to give remarks for
each activity for each student. Apart from that we are made to do other odd
works which take a toll,” the teacher said on condition of anonymity.
As
per CBSE rules a private school should have a separate set of teaching and
non-teaching staff, said an official. “By burdening them (teachers) with
non-teaching work, we kill their creativity and education will suffer,” the
official said.
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