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Timely intervention enhanced performance

Staff Reporter

Appointment of qualified hands boon to Government schools

Young entrants proved their mettle
Parent-Teacher Associations’ cooperation overwhelming

PUDUKOTTAI: Timely intervention by the Education Department for making interim arrangements to handle classes for the Plus Two students in government higher secondary schools in the district has helped increase the pass percentage this year.

Two Government schools in Perungalur in Pudukottai block and Karaiyur in Ponnamaravathy block have registered cent per cent passes. While 142 students (67 boys and 75 girls) appeared through the former school, 80 students including 40 boys sat for the examination through the latter.

Filling up of vacant posts of teachers through an interim arrangement by the Education Department facilitated these government schools to secure the laurels, according to the Headmaster (in-charge) of the Perungalur school K . Annamalai Ranjan and the Headmistress of Karaiyur school, Marijesi.

Mr. Annamalai Ranjan said that locally available qualified hands were posted as interim arrangement for handling science and vocational streams of courses and the Tamil Nadu State Parent Teacher Association foot the bills for their honoraria.

A science teacher of the Karaiyur school, A. L. Muthukumar said that the appointment of young teachers by the Teachers’ Recruitment Board also came as a timely assistance for handling the Plus Two classes. “Being young entrants, they proved their mettle. In fact, an element of competition in registering cent per cent pass percentage in their respective subject was palpable among them,” he said.

The Chief Educational Officer S. Chellam said that several teaching posts were lying vacant in the higher secondary schools. A three-pronged strategy was implemented to tide over the difficulty. Firstly, maximum utilisation of the teachers was chalked out by deputing 40 teachers from the vacancy-free schools to other needy institutions. “Teachers were not transferred but were simply deputed.”

A green signal from the Education Department to appoint the locally available and qualified unemployed persons for handling classes was a great relief for the students. “We appointed 26 teachers; in a few cases, post-graduates without any teaching experience too were appointed, with prior permission from the higher-ups,” she said.

The cooperation by the Parent-Teacher Association was also overwhelming in rising up to the occasion, she said.

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