Garhshankar, November 22: For the ‘National Achievement Survey’ to be conducted on December 4, 2024 for the country-wide test survey to check the level of education in the country, the Education Department is in the wrong path of making students memorize and work from worksheets by ignoring the syllabus and suspending teachers to put pressure on teachers.
Condemning such acts of the Education Department, DTF Punjab State Joint General Secretary Mukesh Kumar, District President Sukhdev Dancewal and District Secretary Indersukhdeep Singh Odra said that at the beginning of the session, the department ran an effective mission for the first four months. In which an attempt was made to mix students who were backward in basic knowledge with others, but the disadvantage of this was that students who were already mature in basic knowledge were at a loss and they could not be made to do the syllabus work.
After this, from August to December, by giving up the syllabus for the survey in the name of testing, with the aim of performing well in the survey, the Punjab Education Department is preparing students from class 1 to 10 through CEP according to the questions that will come in the survey by the teachers.
The leaders said that now by the end of November, all classes will be taught under CEP. After receiving information about the classes of the test survey, the department has been asked to provide syllabus-wise education to students of class 3, 6 and 9 in this plan for students of all other classes.
Apart from this, despite the large number of vacancies in schools, teachers are kept involved in non-academic duties like election duties, stubble burning. In such situations, teachers are being mentally tortured under the condition of bringing out good results through CEP. Taking strict notice of the District Education Officers and Nodal Officers holding online meetings till late at night, harassing them by putting unnecessary pressure, threatening and intimidating the teachers, the organization said that usually surveys are conducted in a natural environment because if the surveys are conducted in a natural environment, the real picture of the schools will come out but the CEP survey is being implemented with the force of a stick. The result of which will be far from reality.
They demanded that such non-psychological and unnecessary projects be stopped and Punjab should formulate its own education policy, giving teachers the freedom to work according to the annual calendar and preparing for bringing school education on track. He said that if the education authorities do not immediately stop their arbitrary, bullying and intimidation towards the teachers, then the organization will be forced to resort to struggle.