Zunheboto, March 17 (MExN): The Zunheboto Town Youth Organization (ZTYO) has bemoaned the absence of Post Graduate Teacher (PGT) in Mathematics at GHSS, Zunheboto.
The ZTYO, in a press release, informed that during a visit to GHSS, Zunheboto, it had discovered that the school has been functioning without a mathematics teacher for past two years.
“Despite PGT (Mathematics) being appointed on paper, there is none actually discharging duty in the appointed subject, and it is other subject teachers who has to bear the additional burden. This practice severely affects the performance of the students in examinations, while also heaping extra classes on other teachers,” the ZTYO stated in the release.
In this regard, the ZTYO has appealed to the concerned department to address the issue at the earliest as new academic sessions are already underway. “Absence of a core subject teacher greatly affects the learning of the student, and prolonged absence shows the incompetence of the department in dealing with truant teachers, which in turn greatly hampers the students in their studies,” the youth organisation maintained.
Meanwhile, the ZTYO has also expressed dismay over the inadequate number of examination centres in Zunheboto town. According to the organisation, this has led to overcrowding of existing centres and inconveniencing normal school hours for other classes during the HSLC/HSSLC examinations.
The ZTYO appealed to the concerned department to lighten the load by either providing more centres, or rotating the centres on recognised schools.
