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    Govt Girls Senior Secondary School Mrs. Nishat TGT-Social Studies 27 Years

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    Mrs. Nishat, a teacher at a government girls' school, discussed the challenges of educating students during the pandemic. She explained that most students cannot afford smartphones or internet access for online classes. Teachers also lack resources and have incurred expenses purchasing phones. Offline, many girls leave school early due to social pressures. The narrator believes the government should provide students and teachers with technology resources, reduce exam fees, offer career counseling, and support for economically disadvantaged students to continue their education.

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    Mrs. Nishat, a teacher at a government girls' school, discussed the challenges of educating students during the pandemic. She explained that most students cannot afford smartphones or internet access for online classes. Teachers also lack resources and have incurred expenses purchasing phones. Offline, many girls leave school early due to social pressures. The narrator believes the government should provide students and teachers with technology resources, reduce exam fees, offer career counseling, and support for economically disadvantaged students to continue their education.

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    Govt Girls Senior Secondary School Mrs. Nishat TGT-Social Studies 27 Years

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    Back to School- Task 1

    1. Find a HM/principal, a teacher or a student in a government, govt aided or low-income


    private school.
    2. Have a conversation with them about the challenges they face in the current situation
    regarding the education system
    3. Write a short essay (500 - 1000 words) including the narrative of the conversation, your
    perspective of the conversation linking it to your views on the issues in the education
    system

    ESSAY

    Name of school- Govt Girls Senior Secondary School


    Name of person contacted- Mrs. Nishat
    Designation- TGT- Social Studies
    Work experience- 27 years

    I got in touch with Mrs. Nishat who has been teaching Social Studies to girl students of classes 9 to 12,
    in her alma mater, Govt Girls Senior Secondary School, Chandni Chowk, Old Delhi. According to her,
    students of govt schools always face issues when it comes to getting proper resources for education
    and for teachers the challenges to educate them never seem to end. Yet it was manageable and her
    school always witnessed a 100% pass percentage. However, since pandemic hit the nation and
    classes shifted to an online mode, acquiring education as well as providing education has turned into a
    nightmare for these girls of govt school.

    Issues faced during offline mode of teaching-


    Most of these girl students are the 1st learner in their family to have access to formal education.
    Therefore, their parents do not understand the value of education and are not aware about the
    opportunities that wait ahead for their child. They pull them out of school at an early age and get them
    married so as to get done with their responsibilities. Parents do not want to educate their girls because
    they feel they’ll get in touch with guys and bring dishonour to family’s reputation. Hence, as soon as
    they get to know about any guy trying to being friendly with their daughter or following her after school,
    they make her leave the school.

    Mrs. Nishat recalls that there was a brilliant student and teachers felt she had the potential to crack
    UPSC exams and had started her training in 11th class after usual school hours. These students cannot
    afford private tuitions for doubt clearing or coaching for preparing for entrances. That girl got in touch
    with a guy friend and her parents made her leave school. Now, it has been two years and she did not
    even get a chance to complete her schooling and IAS’s dream never will turn into reality. This further
    highlights the mindset of people which has not evolved/ adapted to modern world over the years due to
    lack of guidance and education.

    Parents are so used to free education that the ones who can even afford the examination fee for class
    X and XII board exams are not willing to pay. Teachers pool in money and pay the fee for the ones who
    are genuinely needy. In school, they get daily meals, have to wear uniforms, no textbook costs but in
    college this is not the case. Students have to bear an added expense of clothes, stationery and food.
    The monetary barrier prevents students from enrolling in colleges and hence the job opportunities
    remain scarce.
    Issues faced during online mode of teaching-
    Teachers and students both do not have access to laptops and have to teach and study respectively
    through mobile phones. Govt school students come from such a backdrop where they are not even
    able to meet the basic necessities of life like two proper meals a day. Households with multiple school
    going children are at a bigger disadvantage as parents can not even afford one smart phone and even
    if they manage to arrange one phone then which child of theirs should have access to education and
    attend classes still remains a problem.

    Teachers had to purchase new phones as due to over usage, their prior phones got spoilt. This is an
    added burden on the pockets of teachers who have not been receiving full salary for over a year now.
    There are 70 students in a class, and it is not easy to maintain their data in terms of mobile number,
    taking daily attendance, conducting tests, and correcting their answer sheets which they receive on
    their phones.

    She further mentioned that students are afraid that their work might get copied by others hence they
    often end up texting their assignments on personal text to teachers rather than texting on the class
    group. Which further adds to their workload of skimming data from multiple chats and saving in one
    folder. Memory of phone gets full, or it even hangs. Data packages get exhausted and connectivity
    issues constantly persist.

    She ended the conversation by stating the line- “Bina hathyaar ke jung kaise jeete?” Govt schools
    though have appointed them to improve the status of these children but they did not provide them
    proper means to win the ongoing war of education system. Teachers and students should have been
    provided smartphones along with Wi-Fi connectivity.

    My take on this-
    I believe there is a need for career counselling and guidance program for students as well as parents in
    these schools. Both the parties need to know what scope they have in future and why education should
    be a priority rather than getting married at an early age.

    Board examination fees for these students should be either removed or reduced. Similarly, tuition
    centers should be run for these students where they are provided free of cost extra assistance for
    board exams as well as competitive exams. Government needs to allocate more funding for education
    sector.

    Government should provide smartphones to each individual student irrespective of the factor that some
    students live in the same household. Teachers should be provided with laptops with cameras. Students
    as well as teachers should be given a monthly allowance for data charges or Wi-Fi. Inaccessibility to
    technology should not be a hindrance for these students that takes away their chance of education.

    All the students who are able to secure marks to get admission in good colleges based on merit should
    get a monthly allowance to sustain themselves in these colleges. Reduced fees is not the solution, for
    Economically Weaker Section of society other costs attached to college life is still problematic.

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