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School managers criticise panel recommendations

By Our Special Correspondent

KOCHI, APRIL10. The Kerala School Managers' Association has flayed the reported recommendation of the Ananthamurthy Commission that recruitment of teachers to private aided schools should be left to the Public Service Commission.

Fr. Joseph Puthankulam, general secretary of the Association, said this was totally unacceptable to the school managements. He said this amounted to `backdoor nationalisation' of private schools which had earlier been attempted by Sir C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyer, Panampilly Govinda Menon and Joseph Mundassery. These administrators had miserably failed at the attempt.

Fr. Puthankulam said the right to make appointments to the aided schools should be vested with the school managements and not with the Government. He claimed that the aided schools, mostly run by the managements of community organisations, had not been set up with the aim of making profits but to serve society. Their focus was to communicate the cultural and spiritual values they held sacred to others. In order to carry out this mission, these schools needed committed, idealistic teachers. To find such teachers, the private managements needed the authority and right to make appointments, Fr. Puthankulam said.

He also criticised the leak of the recommendations by individual members of the Commission even before the report was jointly accepted by the Commission and presented to the Government. He urged the Government to take action against those members who had leaked the report's recommendations.

Arabic teachers: Meanwhile, the Keala Arabic Teachers Union has asked the Government to set up an Arabic university to promote the language.

The association general secretary, Madavoor Abdul Khader, said certain references in the Ananthamurthy Commission on raising the standards of school education were harmful Arabic language.

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