I am a student of a big English medium school, well-known for its size and strength, situated in Dhanmondi. My annual exam is in December, 2005. But my classmates and I are facing acute problem due to lack of teaching personnel. Some of our teachers frequently go on leave with prior approval, on private or personal grounds. They are usually inexperienced, unqualified and have no classroom or subject knowledge or even teaching skill or device. They are hardly acquainted with our subjects and the only thing they do is keep us absolutely mum/quiet in class. These substitutes are either related to the absentee teachers, unemployed friends or their sibling's friends. This happens all the year round causing damage to our studies, especially during exams. Our teachers who go on leave, both on long or short term, usually pay the substitutes a small amount of money from the absentees' salary which is satisfactory to these young men/women who do not have any source of income or have no other employment elsewhere.It is interesting to point out here that the school appointed a "permanent substitute teacher" to take substitute classes, who also recently went on 'leave' assigning another lady teacher as a temporary replacement.
Our school authority does not bother about a quality or professional teacher as long as s/he can keep us quiet in class. They only ensure that "the class has a teacher", may be for teaching. This seriously hampers our progress, and we feel, only qualified teachers and or educated persons who are teachers by profession and not teaching for the time being, should teach us in our classrooms.
We request the ministry concerned to verify all such matters and help us complete our education smoothly. Please do justice to us, our future depends on it.
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