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Students suffering due to Principal-school row

Parul Sharma

Harried parents seek intervention of Education Dept.

NEW DELHI: Thirty-six of the 44 students of Class XI of Ram Roop Vidya Mandir have failed in both their physics and chemistry final examinations. And while the harried parents have sought intervention of the Delhi Government's Education Department, the Principal and management of the school are blaming each other for this abysmal show.

While there was no physics teacher for the Class XI students of this Delhi Government-aided school at Shakti Nagar during the whole year -- barring a couple of months when a part-time teacher had been appointed -- chemistry was taught by Principal R. A. Sharma himself.

Even as the parents are aghast at the result and have requested the Deputy Director of Education to promote their children to the next class, there is more to it than meets the eye in this school.

The students, it seems, have become victims of a tussle between the Principal and the management.

Mr. Sharma, who claimed the management was "hell-bent" on throwing him out of the school because of his "honesty and integrity", accused them of not being serious enough to appoint a new teacher.

"The regular physics teacher has been in Australia for four years on leave without pay. I arranged one teacher for some time and paid him from my own pocket, but the other teaching staff and students humiliated him and so he left," said Mr. Sharma on Sunday. However, the students said the physics teacher had asked them to take tuition classes from him after school hours and as most students could not oblige him, he "deliberately failed" them in the first term of the academic session.

"In the first term exam, not even a single student could clear the paper. We complained against him. He did not come after that. He reappeared just three days before the second term examination. He took only one class during the entire final term," said one student speaking on condition of anonymity.

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