Tuesday, May 19, 2020

An open Letter to CBSE Chairman

Dear Sir,
I am sure that you are aware of the instructions issued by your Regional office at Ajmer to teachers with a bag containing 200 copies of class XII evaluation work. I have some legitimate questions to ask, though from past experiences, I know your office will not bother to reply.Still, I am writing this because the fundamental question for me is , will any school administration have the courage to ask these to you on behalf of their faithful employees that they euphemistically call teachers.If they do not , then they should hang their heads in shame and tell their own selves that if they can't speak the truth they have no right to preach morals and talk of imparting the values in children.

1. A total of seven days are given including the days copies are given and will be collected , so that leaves five effective days and on the average around 35 copies a day.If each copy has 48 pages it should take minimum 20 minutes to read, evaluate ,mark, total and recheck that makes it around 11.6 hours of continuous work . In these times when domestic helps are not coming and most of the family is confined to home how is it possible specially for a lady teacher to do this task ?
2. In normal times a copy goes through three hands and on the average 20 copies are checked per day but in these difficult times 35 to 40 copies are ordered to be checked alone . How is the rationale justified? The problem is authorities passing such irrational orders are neither aware of outside temperature sitting in their ac offices nor have really checked a copy to know the time and effort it takes to honestly evaluate a students work.
3.The board is conducting remaining exams in July and the result is expected in August. What then is the emergency to so disgustingly press teachers to this level ? This is an obligation that teachers do and they are by no means bonded labor of CBSE or their school .
4.Irony is the authority talks about imposing a penalty of 50000 rupees when they pay around 5000 Rs for 200 copies. A teacher in such a stressed environment is bound to make mistake and then when subjected to penalty I know the spineless managements of school will deduct it from teachers salary to please the bosses.
5. The whole language of letter of instructions has sentences that are far from practical implementation like , wear mask while checking copies .I am sure person signing the letter must be wearing mask in his house for all the time he is awake.
6. In response to the verbal jugulary of last para of instructions where Mr. Sanyam Bhardawaj reminds teachers to be of tough times the world is passing through, all I can say that while teachers are aware, ask yourself, are you ?
I sincerely hope board will have mercy and give more times to teachers.


Regards
Your sincerely
An odd teacher who refuses to be part of your system.



Attached: Copy of instruction that has insensitivity on gross display.


3 comments:

  1. Here I quote an incident from.last year to give reader more clarity about their functioning.
    An english teacher from a school here could not attend spot evaluation as she was admitted in AIIMS and was supposed to go through a bypass surgery. She informed board about the condition with all documents but still a fine of 50000 was slapped on school .They are clever to impose penalty on school and they block the registration portal if same is not paid. The school instead of taking a stand stopped her salary. When a notice was served on board and school by her lawyer husband they withdrew the penalty. When the couple went to regional office Ajmer they said "oh, you should have informed ". When all the mails were shown they brazenly (not apologetically) admitted that they did not go through mails . Classic case of digital India.
    Last year in physics a question itself had an error ,their marking scheme was faulty as a term of denominator was written in numerator and ironically the evaluators had followed that version keeping their brains aside .I wrote letter made video with request to correct the marking scheme put on net so that same is not incorrectly referred by someone .Till date they have not amended the same .Goes to show the work culture of CBSE.here is the link to whole episode.
    https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2459673304051296&id=100000259528153?sfnsn=wiwspmo&extid=aWdiqNC6PJBOqUDG

    ReplyDelete
  2. The phenomena is spread across the board not limited to MHA or HRD ... Couldn't agree more ..
    https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/The-underage-optimist/those-convoluted-govt-circulars-show-whats-wrong-with-indian-babudom/

    ReplyDelete
  3. Coming to 50000 penalty,If a student has to get reevaluation done, he has to pay 100 Rs per question and 1000 for copy of answeebook .Now if the mistake is found and marks are altered CBSE just sends an intimation about change of marks but does not return a single penny to student .Is it the fault of student if his copy was not evaluated properly? Why don't they return the money if the mistake is found as is done in all other exams where refund is done if challange of student is found genuine. Penalty on teacher but no refund to student ,speaks for the dual standards of CBSE.

    ReplyDelete

Your viewpoint will definitely give it wider perspective

LinkWithin

Related Posts with Thumbnails

Thanks for visiting .Soliciting your comments.

Website counter